WOTY? beelzebufo

[Mark Mandel]

But "bufo" means 'toad', not 'frog', in both classical and Linnean Latin.
Rana atque Bufo amici sunt.

m a m

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Joel S. Berson <Berson at att.net> wrote:

> 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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