FROG KING

Ask, May/Jun 2008 by Moss, Meg

After 15 years, scientists have finally put together the fossil bones of what may be the world's largest frog. The ancient amphibian, weighing in at 10 pounds and measuring 16 inches long, was about the size of a bowling ball. They've named the 70-million-year-old creature Beelzebufo ampinga, which means "armored devil toad." The monster frog remains turned up on the island of Madagascar, just off the coast of Africa.

The beast may be an ancestor of today's horned toads. It was so big that it likely fed on small or baby dinosaurs, which it ambushed from the underbrush.