Frogs

In the Urantia Book

Frogs were the ancestors of land vertebrates (60:0.2)

• ancestral frog almost died. Had the ancestral frog of all humanity jumped two inches less on a certain occasion, the whole course of evolution would have been markedly changed. 62:3.9 65:3.3
• From the briny waters of the seas there crawled out upon the land snails, scorpions, and frogs. They sprang suddenly from fish family (59:5.6,23) 65:2.6
• Among the land animals the frogs reached their climax in the preceding age and rapidly declined, but they survived because they could long live even in the drying-up pools and ponds of these far-distant and extremely trying times. They evolved into prereptiles in Permian 59:6.8
• frogs are the only remaining group representative of man’s earlier ancestors. 61:2.6 65:2.6-7
• There is a saying about the importance of instilling loyalty in children: The quickest way for a tadpole to become a frog is to live loyally each moment as a tadpole. 100:1.4