A hungry frog tucks into its breakfast – a fellow amphibian.
The matchbox-sized green-stripe normally eats bugs but this one swallowed a green tree frog.
It's an amphibious assault as one frog makes a meal of another
Wildlife fan Kerry Roberts captured the moment in the garden of her home in Townsville, Queensland.
She said she heard a frog squealing and assumed that a snake had got into her garden was was eating one of the hundreds of amphibians that live near her house.
“But when I went over for a closer to look I saw it was a frog trying to eat another one.”
Source: Metro (UK) and/or Herald Sun (Australia).
Beelzebub 'Devil' Frog
Evidence of a giant frog the size of a bowling ball, with body armour and teeth that lived alongside dinosaurs millions of years ago has been discovered in Madagascar by paleontologist from Stony Brook University.
The 10 pound 16 inch monster lived around 65-70 million years ago, but bizarrely its closest know ‘living’ relative, a normal size frog, lives in South America. Raising new questions about the geology of the earth and how the contents have sifted over time.
The monster frog has been officially named Beelzebufo by researcher Catherine Forster. She took “Beelzebub,” the Hebrew word for devil, and combined it with the Latin “bufo”, meaning frog or toad.
Devil Frog seems to be the perfect name for this monster, as it has been suggested it may well have been big enough to eat hatchling dinosaurs!
External Links:
The Frog From Hell (CNN)
‘Frog from hell’ fossil unearthed (BBC)
