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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 ...

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, ...

A new analysis finds that the devil frog, Beelzebufo ampinga, was slightly smaller than previously thought, had massive spikes protruding from its skull, and a plate of body armor on its back that may ...

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 frog the size of a bowling ball, with heavy armor and teeth, lived among dinosaurs millions of years ago _ intimidating enough that scientists who unearthed its fossils dubbed the beast Beelzebufo, ...

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 ...