Frog from hell? That's how Nature News is telling it ...

Apparently, beelzebufo (frog from hell, in science lingo) lived 65 to 70 million years ago, and was, like, big.

"Similarly-shaped South American frogs have a strong bite and can feast on small vertebrate such as mice and lizards: "Basically, they eat anything smaller that walks by," Evans says.

Beelzebufo was 2-3 times bigger than Ceratophrys aurita, the largest living South American frog in this family, and 4-5 times bigger than the largest living Malagasy frog, Mantidactylus guttulatus ."

One scientist suggested to me that, based on the picture, frog boy should have been called Jabba the Hut.

And no one knows how the frog ended up on Madagascar either.

Madagascar sound familiar? Check out the explosive palm tree of Madagascar at Design of Life blog too.

Note: I have just received this frenzied communication that I do not clearly understand:

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"Apollyon, check your e-mail, will you? The frog is loose again. Lucky for us, this time it's finally dead. But keep a sharper eye on stuff, will you? - Beelzebub"
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