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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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(CN) - New research shows that the mass die-off of dinosaurs and many other species also sparked an explosion of new frog breeds - a surprising relationship that reinforces the theory that mass ...

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A new study finds that frog lineages diversified soon after the extinction of the dinosaurs. The mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs paved the way for a totally different type of creature to ...