READ MORE A large frog that lived 68 million years ago was capable of eating small dinosaurs and had a bite as powerful as a wolf or female tiger, researchers have found. Scientists studying the bite force of a similar genus that lives today — the horned frog of South America — collaborated with a team of paleontologists to determine that the ancient Beelzebufo frog could have preyed on early crocodilians and small non-avian dinosaurs. Their findings have been reported in a new study published in the journal Scientific Reports . To figure out just how much power was in that extinct frog’s bite, lead author Kristopher Lappin, a professor of biological sciences at California State Polytechnic University in Pomona, Calif., examined horned frogs — sometimes known as Pac-Man frogs for their large, wide mouths and round shape. Lappin and his team are interested in how things scale in the animal world, in...
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