{"id":111754,"date":"2020-08-22T14:23:55","date_gmt":"2020-08-22T21:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/the-biggest-frog-that-ever-lived"},"modified":"2020-08-22T14:23:55","modified_gmt":"2020-08-22T21:23:55","slug":"the-biggest-frog-that-ever-lived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/the-biggest-frog-that-ever-lived","title":{"rendered":"The Biggest Frog that Ever Lived"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5nCPbPPrQxQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Untangling the origins of Beelzebufo \u2014 the giant frog that lived alongside the dinosaurs \u2014 turns out to be one of the most bedeviling problems in the history of amphibians.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you to these paleoartists for allowing us to use their wonderful illustrations:<br \/> Ceri Thomas: <a href=\"http:\/\/alphynix.tumblr.com\/\">http:\/\/alphynix.tumblr.com\/<\/a><br \/> Nobu Tamura: <a href=\"https:\/\/spinops.blogspot.com\/\">https:\/\/spinops.blogspot.com\/<\/a><br \/> Julio Lacerda: <a href=\"https:\/\/252mya.com\/gallery\/julio-lacerda\">https:\/\/252mya.com\/gallery\/julio-lacerda<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This video features this paleogeographic map: Scotese, C.R., 2019. Plate Tectonics, Paleogeography, and Ice Ages, YouTube video: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/UevnAq1MTVA\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/UevnAq1MTVA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the two of the papers we reference in this video:<br \/> Evans SE, Groenke JR, Jones MEH, Turner AH, Krause DW (2014) New Material of Beelzebufo, a Hyperossified Frog (Amphibia: Anura) from the Late Cretaceous of Madagascar. PLoS ONE 9: e87236. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1371\/journal.pone<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lappin, A.K., Wilcox, S.C., Moriarty, D.J. et al. Bite force in the horned frog (Ceratophrys cranwelli) with implications for extinct giant frogs. Sci Rep 7, 11963 (2017). <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41598-017-11968-6\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1038\/s41598-017-11968-6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Produced in collaboration with PBS Digital Studios: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtube.com\/pbsdigitalstudios\">http:\/\/youtube.com\/pbsdigitalstudios<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/the-biggest-frog-that-ever-lived\">Continue reading \u201cThe Biggest Frog that Ever Lived\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Untangling the origins of Beelzebufo \u2014 the giant frog that lived alongside the dinosaurs \u2014 turns out to be one of the most bedeviling problems in the history of amphibians. Thank you to these paleoartists for allowing us to use their wonderful illustrations: Ceri Thomas: http:\/\/alphynix.tumblr.com\/ Nobu Tamura: https:\/\/spinops.blogspot.com\/ Julio Lacerda: https:\/\/252mya.com\/gallery\/julio-lacerda This video features [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111754","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111754","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111754\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}