SJ, now this is a frog!

Great horny-toads...!

holy ranidae:scratch:

Reminds me of a lunch lady from school.

tortoise?

That's not a dinosaur. We cut those open in High School Biology class.

That's not a dinosaur. We cut those open in High School Biology class.

Well...ftlog don't tell these guys y'all discovered them first in GA...

The discovery, led by paleontologist David Krause at New York's Stony Brook University, was published Monday by the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

"This frog, if it has the same habits as its living relatives in South America, was quite voracious," Krause said. "It's even conceivable that it could have taken down some hatchling dinosaurs."

Krause began finding fragments of abnormally large frog bones in Madagascar, off the coast of Africa, in 1993. They dated back to the late Cretaceous period, roughly 70 million years ago, in an area where Krause also was finding dinosaur and crocodile fossils. But only recently did Krause's team assemble enough frog bones to piece together what the creature would have looked like, and weighed.

I'd guess that this one is close to bowling ball size. The Toads we used in Biology weren't from GA. They were African.




This one is the size of a small human.

I'd guess that this one is close to bowling ball size. The Toads we used in Biology weren't from GA. They were African.




This one is the size of a small human.

But do they have teeth???

At least I'll have something to do when I'm up all night with frog nightmares...I'll SoWal...

I don't remember looking into their mouths. We just gutted them and examined and studied their organs.

Check out this frog. It looks very similar in pattern to the sketch of the one BB mentioned in the first post.

I don't remember looking into their mouths. We just gutted them and examined and studied their organs.

Check out this frog. It looks very similar in pattern to the sketch of the one BB mentioned in the first post.

It's also kind of similar to the $18K purse that BR showed us.

I think that we mostly cut them up and threw the yukkiest parts on each other in the hall.

I don't remember looking into their mouths. We just gutted them and examined and studied their organs.

Check out this frog. It looks very similar in pattern to the sketch of the one BB mentioned in the first post.

They do look similar. Wonder if it is a relative? I have seen the big frogs before, but don't think they have teeth and as the article stated "It's even conceivable that it could have taken down some hatchling dinosaurs."

That thing would scare the tinkle out of me!

I don't remember looking into their mouths. We just gutted them and examined and studied their organs.

Check out this frog. It looks very similar in pattern to the sketch of the one BB mentioned in the first post.

I have a dumb question. How would they know from skeletons what the heck it's markings/pattern looked like?

Found this:

Now it looks about the size of a bowling ball. So what makes the new discovery a great find? Is it just because it has teeth?



"The biggest kind of frog is the Goliath frog (Conraua goliath). They come from Cameroon in West Africa. Their bodies can reach the size of nearly a foot (30 cm) long.(remember: their legs are also AT LEAST that long!!!!)
The Conraua Goliath weighs as much as a large housecat, about 3.3 kilos! "

I have a dumb question. How would they know from skeletons what the heck it's markings/pattern looked like?

According to one of the dudes in Jurassic Park, they don't. They probably stole the markings from current trendy frog markings.

I have a dumb question. How would they know from skeletons what the heck it's markings/pattern looked like?

I'm still trying to figure out how the telephone works. I'd never figure out those archaeological details. A kid a few years behind me in Middle School went on a shoreline exploration with a few other kids and our science teacher, when he was in about the seventh grade. It was along the shore of a river in our hometown. The geek found a substantial-sized dinosaur bone, which is now in the Smithsonian. I couldn't tell it apart from the other rocks and dirt until they cleaned it up.

Here's the Hypno Toad.

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At least I'll have something to do when I'm up all night with frog nightmares...I'll SoWal...

I can't believe no one else posted this!
It was filmed at Eden! Them Frogs already be here!


(i found my new signature picture while looking for the FROGS movie poster-this is hysterical!)

You can laugh about that poster, but the awful buggers have been mating in my pool for the last two nights. TOTAL, CONSTANT RACKET ALL NIGHT LONG. We're apparently the designated "party house" at this time of year... One kept it up until about 3:30 a.m., yelling what sounded like, "TED!!!!!" Well, he sure looks like heck this morning, along with his 11 friends we fished out. It's like Club Med over here, but with frogs.

Love the "Frog's" poster! Last night I went out to a friends house while it was still raining. Hwy 395 N was full of frogs...couldn't miss them......it was disgusting to hear the little boogers pop under the tires. I tried dodging them, but there were just too many. Don't EVEN want to look at the tires today................................

You can laugh about that poster, but the awful buggers have been mating in my pool for the last two nights. TOTAL, CONSTANT RACKET ALL NIGHT LONG. We're apparently the designated "party house" at this time of year... One kept it up until about 3:30 a.m., yelling what sounded like, "TED!!!!!" Well, he sure looks like heck this morning, along with his 11 friends we fished out. It's like Club Med over here, but with frogs.

Wow...that's quite a mental image you conjure up. Ted the horny toad...

You can laugh about that poster, but the awful buggers have been mating in my pool for the last two nights. TOTAL, CONSTANT RACKET ALL NIGHT LONG. We're apparently the designated "party house" at this time of year... One kept it up until about 3:30 a.m., yelling what sounded like, "TED!!!!!" Well, he sure looks like heck this morning, along with his 11 friends we fished out. It's like Club Med over here, but with frogs.

A little chlorine and all frogs look like princes.