Scientists discover ancient "devil frog." It ate dinosaurs for breakfast.

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It was the biggest, baddest, meanest froggy ever to have hopped on Earth.

Scientists on Monday announced the discovery in northwestern Madagascar of a bulky amphibian dubbed the "devil frog" that lived 65 million to 70 million years ago and was so nasty it may have eaten newborn dinosaurs.

 

[Father Jack]

Yukkkk, I have a phobia of all frogs, but the thought of one that effin size really freaks me out ..

 

[Airforce]

That thing would make one hell of a meal


You could gig that sucker in complete darkness without a light

 

[Father Jack]

Frog soup !!! .. double Yukkk ..

 

[killerrobot]

Beelzebufo (pronounced bee-el-zeh-BOOF-oh) was 16 inches

long and weighed an estimated 10 pounds (4.5 kg).

I was expecting it to be a whole lot bigger than that if it ate hatchling dinosaurs.

But I guess it was big enough to freak out Father Jack so maybe I should be worried too

 

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That thing would make one hell of a meal

It brings a whole new meaning to frogs legs...

 

[Antares]

Steamed frog legs are quite tasty. I can only imagine how wonderful a frog of that size would taste. All that meat.....

But it looks quite small. Aren't there toads that size still around today? For a frog, that's huge, though. It must have eaten very small dinosaurs.

 

[ezekielrage_99]

Beelzebufo died out after the French got to it....

It had to be said

 

[PkennethV]

Cool...but I was expecting ridiculously huge I guess