An ancient, predatory creature known as the devil frog may have looked even scarier than previously thought. The monster frog, Beelzebufo ampinga, lived during the Cretaceous Period in what is now ...
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The mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs paved the way for a totally different type of creature to take over — frogs. The slimy amphibians exploded in numbers and diversified in the millions ...
Poison aside, frogs are generally weak and pathetic. Dinosaurs, meanwhile, range from weak and pathetic to huge and strong, so I’m going to say they’re generally “not weak.” But 70 million years ago, ...
Scientists say that a large, now extinct, frog called Beelzebufo that lived about 68 million years ago in Madagascar would have been capable of eating small dinosaurs. The conclusion comes from a ...
Beelzebufo ampinga, an ancient frog also known as the "devil frog," had a strong-enough jaw to include small dinosaurs and crocodiles in its diet, according to a new study. The chilling revelation ...
From the outside, it might look like a deeply unserious set of tactics for a moment in which people’s lives are in real ...
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