Supertoad!

A frog the size of a bowling ball, with heavy armor and teeth, lived among dinosaurs millions of years ago, and while mildly interesting, intimidated dork scientists who unearthed its fossils. They dubbed the beast Beelzebufo, or Devil Toad. Oooh!

Calculated to be about 10 pounds and 16 inches long, the creature's bones were found in Madagascar, and dated back to the late Cretaceous period, roughly 70 million years ago. The bones were in an area where dinosaur and crocodile fossils were also unearthed.

The largest living frog, the Goliath frog of West Africa, can reach 7 pounds, but fossil frog experts determined Beelzebufo isn't related to other African frogs. It seems to be a relative of South American horned frogs, known scientifically as Ceratophrys. Popular as pets, they're sometimes called pacman frogs for their huge mouths. Like those modern frogs, Beelzebufo had a wide mouth and powerful jaws, plus teeth. Skull bones were extremely thick, with ridges and grooves characteristic of some type of armor or protective shield.

The family link also raises a paleontology puzzle. The theory for how the continents drifted apart show what is now Madagascar would have been long separated by ocean from South America during Beelzebufo's time, yet frogs can't survive long in salt water. Perhaps the giant frog provides evidence for competing theories that some bridge still connected the land masses that late in time, perhaps via an Antarctica that was much warmer than today. Then again, it's just a goddamn big frog.