A frog the size of a bowling ball, with heavy armor and teeth, lived among dinosaurs millions of years ago — intimidating enough that scientists who unearthed its fossils dubbed the beast Beelzebufo, or Devil Toad.But its size — 10 pounds and 16 inches long — isn't the only curiosity. Researchers discovered the creature's bones in Madagascar. Yet it seems to be a close relative of normal-sized frogs who today live half a world away in South America, challenging assumptions about ancient geography.Paleontologist David Krause of Stony Brook University in New York made the discovery

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A giant toad was found in Australia, which looks more like a dog. The toad weighs around one kilo and is the biggest ever found in Australia."It's huge, to put it mildly," said Frogwatch coordinator. "The biggest toads are usually females but this one was a rampant male I would hate to meet his big sister."Frogwatch is preoccupied with poisonous toad wiping out, because they kill local animals.

The chunk of amber containing the almost 0.4-inch frog was uncovered by a miner in Mexico's southern Chiapas state in 2005 and was bought by a private collector, who lent it to scientists for study. This discovery was announced by the biologist Gerardo Carbot of the Chiapas Natural History and Ecology Institute. He said, that only a few other preserved frogs have been found in chunks of amber. Mostly in the Dominican Republic. Like those, the frog found in Chiapas appears to be of the genus Craugastor, whose descendants still inhabit the region.Carbot figures the frog lived 25 million years