Yahoo News (USA) September 21st, 2017 05:26 AM: Beelzebufo: Giant Frog That Ate Dinosaurs Discovered In Madagascar
Scientists have discovered that a prehistoric species of giant frog had a bite so powerful it could gobble down small dinosaurs with its massive mouth. The frog species, named Beelzebufo, is now extinct: it lived about 68 million years ago in Madagascar. Published Thursday in the Nature journal Scientific Reports, the research by scientists from*the University of Adelaide, California State Polytechnic University—Pomona, University of California—Riverside, and University College London (UCL), “found that small horned frogs, with head width of about 4.5 cm (1.8 inches), can bite with a force of 30 newtons (N) or about 3 kilograms or 6.6 pounds.” according to a press release.
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