Students name 309-million-year-old Jeanerpeton mazonensis after their mothers

Student scientists Allison Sefcovic and Payton Kohlberg have named a newly identified early amphibian species after their mothers, both named Jean. Jeanerpeton mazonensis lived 309 million years ago, long before the dinosaurs, in the area around present-day Chicago, then a swampy river delta. The creature resembled a salamander but was stocky and pudgy like a frog. The fossil was found...