http://uk.reuters.com/article/scienc...22665720080218

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"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - It was the biggest, baddest, meanest froggy ever to have hopped on Earth.

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......"


I'm always impressed that frogs et al survived the K-T extinction so well.

Thanks Klik, I hadn't seen that. I can see the movie now...

Jurassic Park 5 - When Frogs Ruled the Earth!

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So... Paul Harvey (quirky US national radio newscaster) stumbled and called the genus "Beelzebuto" this morning. About 8 times. And, left it unfixed for the afternoon rebroadcast.

That's Beelzebufo.

And, now you know... the rest of the story.

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Beelzebuto of course is the recently assassinated frog that was the one time President of Pakistan.

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Too bad it wasn't a giant tree frog. They could have called it Rana mok.

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"Plunk your magic twanger, overday, Froggy!"
[plunk, whoosh]
"Hiya, Ghoul, hiya, hiya, hiya!"

Fred

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Perhaps you refer to Norman Spinrad's Giant Flying Vampire Toad made famous in the June 1980 issue of OMNI?

By the way, unless they've changed yet again, the tree frogs should be hylids, not ranids. So instead of Rana mok might I suggest Hyla unlikeli?

And of course, there is always the hypnotoad

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Never heard of it.



(Damn neural short circuits. I Confused Hyla regilla with Rana pretiosa)

This fossil does give certain validity to the mysterious beach signs "Swimmers, beware of the undertoad".

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ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD


(Clap Clap Clap)

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From CNN.com

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Yeah, we have a lot of lungless salamanders in my area. It's weird seeing a vertibrate that has neither lungs nor gills. (But they still have nostrils!)

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Gimme a minute to read through Jay's latest observations...

Yeah, we do too. Personally, I think the gilled salamanders, like the mudpuppy are even weirder.

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