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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. In the Cretaceous forests of ancient Madagascar, one frog ...

Beelzebufo ampinga, the so-called "devil frog," may be the largest frog that ever lived. These beach-ball-size amphibians, now extinct, grew to 16 inches (41 centimeters) in length and weighed about ...

Researchers from the University of Adelaide are part of an international team that has been looking into a 68 million-year-old frog called Beelzebufo (Devil Toad). Specifically, it’s Pac-Man like ...

A modern-day Argentine Horned frog, 28 November 2007. This species is part of a genus similar to the ancient dinosaur-muncher. The frog species, named Beelzebufo, is now extinct: it lived about 68 ...

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, ...

It was the biggest, baddest, meanest froggy ever to have hopped on earth. Scientists have announced the discovery in northwestern Madagascar of a bulky amphibian dubbed the 'devil frog' that lived ...

A large, now extinct frog called Beelzebufo that lived about 68 million years ago in Madagascar would have been capable of eating small dinosaurs, researchers have found. The discovery came after ...

The frog species, named Beelzebufo, is now extinct: it lived about 68 million years ago in Madagascar. But according to research on the modern-day frog genus Ceratophrys, whose members are known as ...