Beelzebufo || Largest Frog Ever Lived

Beelzebufo ampinga a particularly large species of prehistoric frog assumed to have lived 66-70 million years ago.
Common names assigned by the popular media include Killer Bean, devil toad, and the frog from hell.
Fossils of Beelzebufo have been recovered from strata of the Maevarano Formation in Madagascar, dating to the late Cretaceous period.
The first fossil fragments were found in 1993, but it took 14 years for scientists to assemble enough data for publication in the journal of the United States National Academy of Sciences.
Some 75 fossil fragments have been found. Researchers have been able to reconstruct parts of the frog's skeleton, including nearly the entire skull.
Animals of this species may have grown to at least 23.2 cm (9.1 in) (snout-vent length), which is still around the size a modern African Bullfrog can reach.
The skull sutures are open in even the biggest species of Beelzebufo, showing that it may have grown even bigger. Some estimates suggest snout-vent lengths of up to or beyond 40 cm (15.7 in).
The head of Beelzebufo was very big, and bones of the skull roof show a rugous external surface, indicating the head may have borne bony scales, called scutes.
It superficially resembles its closest living relatives, the horned toads of South America, of which the largest today grow to 15 cm (5.9 in) long.
Beelzebufo most likely was a predator whose expansive mouth allowed it to eat relatively large prey, perhaps even juvenile dinosaurs.
Bite force measurements from a growth series of Cranwell's horned frog (Ceratophrys cranwelli), suggest that the bite force of a large Beelzebufo (skull width 15.4 cm) may have been between 500 and 2200 N.
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