Meet the Devil Frog

[Chewycorns]

Damn, that is a big sucker.

@Globe and Mail

WASHINGTON — A frog the size of a bowling ball, with armour and teeth, lived among dinosaurs millions of years ago — intimidating enough that scientists who unearthed its fossils dubbed the beast Beelzebufo, or Devil Toad.

But its size — 4.5 kilograms and 40 centimetres long — isn’t the only curiosity. Researchers discovered the creature’s bones in Madagascar. Yet it seems to be a close relative of normal-sized frogs who today live half a world away in South America, challenging assumptions about ancient geography.

The discovery, led by paleontologist David Krause at New York’s Stony Brook University, was published Monday by the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

This frog, if it has the same habits as its living relatives in South America, was quite voracious,” Dr. Krause said. “It’s even conceivable that it could have taken down some hatchling dinosaurs.

Dr. Krause began finding fragments of abnormally large frog bones in Madagascar, off the coast of Africa, in 1993. They dated back to the late Cretaceous period, roughly 70 million years ago, in an area where Dr. Krause also was finding dinosaur and crocodile fossils. But only recently did Dr. Krause’s team assemble enough frog bones to piece together what the creature would have looked like, and weighed.

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[TainanCowboy]

Wow…thats some big frog legs…(tastes like chicken)

Still have the bufo toads around…and they got poison!

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[TheGingerMan]

I love that name: Beezlebufo.
I can almost envision the meanderings of the cheezy screenplay…
Coming soon to a theatre near you…