Prehistoric Giant Frog Named After The Devil

Posted by Alex in Animal, Science & Tech on February 19, 2008 at 10:44 pm



Illustration: Luci Betti-Nash / Dan Klores Communications

Paleontologist David Krause of Stony Brook University, New York, and colleagues discovered the remains of one helluva big frog – named after the devil – that lived 65 million to 70 million years ago:

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.

This brute was larger than any frog living today and may be the biggest frog ever to have existed, according to paleontologist David Krause of Stony Brook University in Stony Brook, New York, one of the scientists who found the remains.

Its name, Beelzebufo ampinga, came from Beelzebub, the Greek for devil, and bufo — Latin for toad. Ampinga means "shield," named for an armor-like part of its anatomy.

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Previously on Neatorama: Strangest Dinosaur Names


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8 comments to "Prehistoric Giant Frog Named After The Devil"

  1. VonSkippy
    February 19th, 2008 at 11:39 pm

    That would make the coolest pet EVER!!!

    Assuming of course they could find some viable DNA and go Jurassic Park on it.

  2. sd
    February 19th, 2008 at 11:59 pm

    my brother thought it looked like hypnotoad!

  3. katelady
    February 20th, 2008 at 2:54 am

    It's so fun and interesting. I Love it. I ever checked such related video on horsematch dotcom.

  4. RN
    February 20th, 2008 at 3:02 am

    "Its name, Beelzebufo ampinga, came from Beelzebub, the Greek for devil, and bufo — Latin for toad"

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    Morons, "Beelzebub" is derived from the Hebrew. The Greeks had nothing to do with it.

    One would think that with the whole WEB available for quick look-ups that whoever wrote that nonsense would have checked the source.

  5. Alex
    February 20th, 2008 at 3:22 am

    From Columbia Encyclopedia:

    Baal-zebub (b?'?l-z?'b?b) [Heb.,=lord of flies], a deliberate Hebrew distortion of the name of the god of Ekron in 2 Kings. In the Gospels of Mark and Luke, Beelzebul, the Greek form of the epithet Baal-zebul [Baal the Prince], is encountered. See Baal and Satan.

  6. Skipweasel
    February 20th, 2008 at 8:26 am

    I wonder if it ate flies as well. That'd make beelzebufo most appropriate.

    What next, if they find a bigger one? helluvabufo reallyquitelargia?

  7. Orjans Morjan
    February 20th, 2008 at 12:05 pm

    All hail hypnotoad!

  8. Christophe
    February 23rd, 2008 at 9:31 pm

    Miss Piggy meets Kermit


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