WOTY? beelzebufo

Joel S. Berson Berson at ATT.NET
Wed Feb 20 21:34:49 UTC 2008


Beelzebufo:  the 10-pound, bowling-ball sized (and apparently shaped,
although some say "squashed beach ball"), armor-plated, horned fossil
frog from Madagascar.

28,000 Google hits (in less than 3 days from its public debut?), but
none so far in Books or Scholar.  (Are there WOTY subcategories?)

Press release and "photo" at
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=111119&govDel=USNSF_51.
(Download high-resolution JPG if you'd like him on your office wall.)

Joel

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