Ancient Frog Big as Bowling Ball

Washington- February 18, 2008

A frog fossil the size of a bowling ball was discovered to have lived among the dinosaurs. Beelzebuffo or the devil toad was the name given to this ancient amphibian. The frog weighs 10 lbs. and 16 oz.. The bones were discovered in Madagascar. The devil frog is a close relative to the normal frogs who reside in South America. Dr. Krause began finding fragments of bones off the coast of africa in 1933. They dated back approxamitely 70 million years ago during the Cretaceous period. The Goliath frog of West Africa is only 7 lbs. As a result Dr. Krause assumed that Beelzebuffos are not related to African frogs. Al though it is (Beelzrbuzzo) related to the South American horned frogs known as Ceratohprys.

Article found at: http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/02/18/frog.fossil.ap/index.html