Found: the Frog from Hell
After reading Tumeke’s humourous blog about me, “The Frog Roars“, I felt that I had finally come of age as a fearsome voice in the blogosphere. (Not that my ranking on the site was ever too shabby.)
Then this morning I learned that one of my ancestors has been found fossilised in Madagascar. Was he cute and cuddly like the children’s movie? No. He was the Frog from Hell! They named him Beelzebufo.
A team from UCL and Stony Brook University, New York, have discovered a fossil of a giant dinosaur-eating frog in Madagascar, giving weight to the theory that the island off Africa’s east coast was once linked to India and South America.
The 70 million-year-old frog, dubbed Beelzebufo (‘the frog from hell’), is of a kind previously thought only to live in South America. Weighing 4kg and with a body length of up to 40cm, it had a squat body, huge head and wide mouth.
Perhaps I, too, shall devour the dinosaur parties of National and Labour at the upcoming election? Arrrhhhhh!
