Considering how ravenous a normal pac-man frog is today, Buffo had to be an absolute menace... sheesh stepping near that thing would be like accidentally stepping on a leg trap 😅
Frogs are probably the most insane predators, Goliath Frogs literally eat anything in sight that's big enough to fit in it's mouth, and they're about 36cm/12" in size which is just mental
This video blew my mind! Beelzebufo, the devil frog, emerges as a true heavyweight of the Cretaceous period. Its unique adaptations, including bone armor and a ferocious bite, make it a standout among ancient amphibians. The discussion on its potential role in the ecosystem, as both predator and prey, offers valuable insights into the dynamics of prehistoric life. A definite highlight for anyone with an interest in paleontology or natural history!
The following house household pets that would be at risk- 1. Housecats 2. Small dogs 3. Small birds like parakeets, cockatoo's, and parrots. 4. Any pet lizard (accept maybe for a full grown monitor lizard) 5. Most pet snakes. 6. Any insect.
"2200 N" That is... Kind of nuts. If true, that would imply it probably could bite harder than a decent-sized polar bear, and has a bite force quotient somewhere in the high 1600s.
In theory, it could pull 2200 kg down the distance of its open mouth, if it were hanging above in a way that that's possible. Obviously, it couldn't pull or lift that much otherwise. But that's insane.
It's hard to believe but a 2.2k bite force makes sense when you really break down their anatomy. Their mouth is a huge opening right to their stomach, and since it didn't kill by bleeding things out or shock, it basically needed to make sure whatever it ate stayed inside. Those jaw muscles were probably under constant strain from it's meal struggling around for a couple minutes. Fucking wild!
Why did the Beelzebufo refuse to update its software? Because every time it tried, it got a "bug" in the system and ended up feeling toad-ally frustrated! 😁
A frog will ear anything that moves and will fit in it's mouth. Naturally this eliminates anything that is larger than the frog and they can't chew and won't wear carrion.
I had a weird dream once, long before I’d even known these frogs existed. They were were green, the color of grass, camouflaging seamlessly in the scenery. They hunted in large packs of 6-10 and were the size of large cats. Their tongues were very powerful and extremely sticky and once it attached to something, it had the force to yank off one’s arm as it pulled it back. They would then collectively tear off chunks of their prey with their tongues and digest them alive. The dream was so unsettling and frightening, I hopped on Google to see if such a thing ever existed, and as it turns out, the damn thing did. I’ve had so many different weird dreams about prehistoric insects, sea life and animals, it’s crazy. Always makes me wonder if there’s some validity to them, just as I’d dreamt of these demons.
lol nope jaguars have a MUCH larger "forehead" size. Take the leopard in this video, and cross it's appearance with a pitbull and you've got yourself a Jag. @@dr8121
The beelzebufo could also eat small dinosaurs and animals like newborns adult oviraptors, chompocognathus, a baby dimetrodon, an baby zebra shark, could eat more frogs insects, birds, raptors, newborn ankylosaurus, and other more
The land bridge to South America via Antarctica seems a lot less plausible than the possibility that Beelzebufo is a holdover from the Triassic Pangea, with Beelzebufo just facing a rapid extraction in mainland Africa after the breakup.
I was wondering about convergent evolution. The lesser tenrec looks almost exactly like a hedgehog, but is not closely related. It too is a native of Madagascar. Perhaps a similar process happened to these frogs.
I know modern frogs can scream like an ambulance, I can imagine this thin being capable of giving you tinnitus when it screamed. Perfect for telling a big dinosaur to f*ck off.
New videogame idea: The end of the flies Your playing as a fly In the same habitat as the belzebuffo And you need to discover weapons like sticks and rocks and at the end you are face to face with BELZEBUFFO Attack:200 Defense:200 The all great belzebuffo the journey is over but belzebuffo is ready to stop you No matter it takes
@@Da_bear-ij9gmBecause soft tissue connects to bone, and bones are shaped to work well with soft tissue. In some cases we can know a lot about soft tissues based on bone structure.
I saw this thumbnail and title, took a moment to process. Then I delightedly gasped, out loud, "Beezlebufo!" I j-... I just didn't really know that I had that amount of feeling about beezlebufo, or in anything resembling that way. Like I'm watching live television at home and they're doing an interview with a respected expert, and he comes on screen and it is my wonderful handsome son beezlebufo who looks so good in his suit on TV! That kind of area of emotion. It's just a lot to take in, learning you feel that way about anything. Let alone largest frogge. Anyway, excellent the whole way through, subscribed.
Beelzabufo is a baller name and I’m gonna name a dog that. One dog named Federal “Feddy” Nightmare and another dog named Beelzabufo, Buff for short. They will both be bully mutts or some pit bull mutt.
Frog and fish eggs were often carried by birds in the modern times, I would suggest similar frogs could arrive at Madagascar via hitch hikes from pterosaurs.
I had no idea there were Araripesuchus in Madagascar. How did they get there? Gondwana had started to break apart long before that. Can't wiat for more answers for that
@@danilodesouza6461 Yeah, it sounds silly. I guess we have to start with when did they appear in the geologic record and calculate how far apart the land masses are. It could be that the frogs were in Madagascar before the tectonic plates moved. Another possibility is birds eating the eggs, flying to the area and disgorging (throw up) the crop contents while feeding their chicks. Do you have any ideas to add?
@2degucitas araripesuchus was no frog, mate. It was a 40kg land croc from late cretaceous South America. I like your thoughts on migratory flying animals regurgitating eggs (or even bones) far away from their native range, though
I feel Like there needs to be a game of thrones family that rides giant frogs like targarions ride dragons, and has giant frogs as the family sigil. Because wars between the families would be way cooler with giant frogs. 😂
After just reading the title, I pictured a frog with a tiny voice threatening humans. "Fear me! I will crush you human; like my ancestors did! We were giants!"
not surprised beazabufo is such a interesting and powerful beast Madagascar has always been a incredible biodiverse place about ten million years ago there were giant gorrila sized lemurs! 😮
With that kind of bite force and poor mobility, I feel it would have made sense for it to have been a scavenger, as well as an ambush predator, sort of like an aquatic wolverine
Due to the shape of a frog’s skull which has very little in the way of muscle connections for masseter, temporal and such: I can pretty confidently say 2200 newtons is either a typo or a misread. It doesn’t matter how big the frog’s mouth was, frog skulls aren’t designed for crushing bite force. For a predator like a leopard which does have a skull specially designed for biting to have only half the bite of a frog is unrealistic and dubious. The frog would have to be about 50% larger than a leopard due to the physics working against it. Since it is the size of a chihuahua I’m going to call BS.
Take in mind some storms may carry frogs and fish thousands of miles of their basic residence and some of them may survive it while reaching the destination... it could be the case here as well, even if the continents weren't connected.
If you read revelations, you find that the gates of hell will be opened on earth, and locust type demons, 3 frog demons and Abadon the general of hell, will come out of it.
@@letsgetreal6402 If you are still alive when they show up, your disbelief won't matter. I find it strange when everything the bible prophesied is happening. 3 or 4 countries are attacking Israel as we speak. Israel became a nation in 1948. all foretold and happening right now, and think your science will save you. Don't mock God if you know what is good for you. His judgement will be poured out full strength. That means the evil people will de the worst this world has ever seen.
@@bobbyduke777 Notice how letsgetreal's comment was tame and you went all "don't mock God" and "judge the evil" over it. You probably have less chances to sit on the Father's lap than him but can't see it
bruh naming a frog lord of the flies is insanely badass ngl
And ironic
Its quite a perfect name for a frog tho
I want to believe Belzebuffo was at least the size of a pitbull.
Have ark tell it it’s huge 😂
Title of video says Giant, but in reality it was just a slightly larger frog than today.
@@NTJedi that frog was the size of today hippo!
Like the musician?
@@kristijankuzman9532😂 what?!
No it wasn't. It was maybe about the size of a large cat.
Definitely Not a hippopotamus!
Considering how ravenous a normal pac-man frog is today, Buffo had to be an absolute menace... sheesh stepping near that thing would be like accidentally stepping on a leg trap 😅
And any animal lighter than 2kg, ancient or modern, are on the menu for these frogs.
Frogs are probably the most insane predators, Goliath Frogs literally eat anything in sight that's big enough to fit in it's mouth, and they're about 36cm/12" in size which is just mental
big mouth go nom nom
This video blew my mind! Beelzebufo, the devil frog, emerges as a true heavyweight of the Cretaceous period. Its unique adaptations, including bone armor and a ferocious bite, make it a standout among ancient amphibians. The discussion on its potential role in the ecosystem, as both predator and prey, offers valuable insights into the dynamics of prehistoric life. A definite highlight for anyone with an interest in paleontology or natural history!
PAC man is a lil yellow ball not a frog son
Beelzebub - “lord of flies”, perfect name
I thought Beelzebub is lord of shit
Ark beelzebufo is one of the only animals where if you try to knock it out, it probably knock you out first.
And the titanaboa
pachy :
titanoboa:
thorny dragon :
araneo :
scorpion :
equus :
basilisk :
tusoteuthis :
cnidaria :
It wont kill you the barionix wil
@@serpentine-nc6enhow u not gonna out run a scorpion?
@@AZTR0N0MICAL04 i mean youre trying to knock it out so
The following house household pets that would be at risk-
1. Housecats
2. Small dogs
3. Small birds like parakeets, cockatoo's, and parrots.
4. Any pet lizard (accept maybe for a full grown monitor lizard)
5. Most pet snakes.
6. Any insect.
10 bucks says "house cat" (felis domesticus) beats "chihuahua frog" (beelzebufo ampinga).
Don't forget small children
This video is brought to you by: Island gigantism, bringing horrors to this world since 300 million BC.
Island gigantism and dwarfism battle it out. Who will win?
Which islands date back to 300 million BC ?
Counter point, tiny mammoths are adorable so I’d take the good with the bad.
@@2degucitasShantungosaurus throws hands with all of them
Not funny
300 people who thumbed up your comment aren't funny
Beelzebufo to a baby masiakasaurus:I AM ABOUT TO KERMIT MURDER
This comment needs more appreciation.
Srsly this comment is underrated
this don't matter but i was the 100th person to like this comment. Great pun btw. I love puns good or bad.
"2200 N"
That is... Kind of nuts. If true, that would imply it probably could bite harder than a decent-sized polar bear, and has a bite force quotient somewhere in the high 1600s.
In theory, it could pull 2200 kg down the distance of its open mouth, if it were hanging above in a way that that's possible. Obviously, it couldn't pull or lift that much otherwise. But that's insane.
The bite force sounds wildly overshot to me, would be crazy if it came to be true!
It's hard to believe but a 2.2k bite force makes sense when you really break down their anatomy. Their mouth is a huge opening right to their stomach, and since it didn't kill by bleeding things out or shock, it basically needed to make sure whatever it ate stayed inside. Those jaw muscles were probably under constant strain from it's meal struggling around for a couple minutes. Fucking wild!
Frogs in the Southern US can be as big as a plate, and will eat baby chicks, so frogs are still eating dinosaurs.
Dinos aren't birds.
@@thatcomicdad1687 But birds are dinos.
7:23 omg 😭🥺🥺🥺😊That looked so cute that I want to encourage him! You're doing great little guy 🥺😁
I know, I want to give him scritchies and reassurance.
When he fell off the peice of wood I was like
Nooooo🥺🥺
@PuroSnisterlook omg! I want to cheer you up and hug you too lol! So nice that I've got a kindred spirit in this 😊🥰
@@Li_Tobler I felt like that guy when I was playing a dino game I fell off a piece of wood to some body of water and I got prayed upon by a croc😖
He ate my cat
Beezlebufo is one of the coolest names ever 🐸
Why did the Beelzebufo refuse to update its software? Because every time it tried, it got a "bug" in the system and ended up feeling toad-ally frustrated! 😁
Take my like and leave
This is awful lmao
😐
Thanks great grandpa
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yea seeing how big bullfrogs can get and the idea of frogs being walking stomachs, they must have been really good ambush predators in those settings.
A frog will ear anything that moves and will fit in it's mouth. Naturally this eliminates anything that is larger than the frog and they can't chew and won't wear carrion.
I had a weird dream once, long before I’d even known these frogs existed. They were were green, the color of grass, camouflaging seamlessly in the scenery. They hunted in large packs of 6-10 and were the size of large cats. Their tongues were very powerful and extremely sticky and once it attached to something, it had the force to yank off one’s arm as it pulled it back. They would then collectively tear off chunks of their prey with their tongues and digest them alive. The dream was so unsettling and frightening, I hopped on Google to see if such a thing ever existed, and as it turns out, the damn thing did. I’ve had so many different weird dreams about prehistoric insects, sea life and animals, it’s crazy. Always makes me wonder if there’s some validity to them, just as I’d dreamt of these demons.
I thought Beelzebufo would atleast be the size of a tiger
Welp I was damn wrong
ark lied to us
@@Drugs_Potato of course they lied to you, it's just a video game.
@@iamlouis1495 yes, thats the joke
they haven't found the fully grown adult yet
@@eljanrimsa5843w h a t
I met the paleontologist who discovered this frog.
Damn
Is this said paleontologist cool or more like Kanye West
@@tvbnine793 More like Axel F
Here's a cookie 🍪
@@tvbnine793I’d be cool with Kanye as long as we’re watching Gracie Bon together.
My flights been delayed by five hours and I've just discovered this channel let's fucking go
Ain’t no way that thing had a bite force stronger than a leopard. I’m calling shenanigans
Leopards Have Surprisingly Weak Bite Forces. It Only Bites At About 300 PSI.
Pretty sure that was a jaguar shown here too
lol nope jaguars have a MUCH larger "forehead" size. Take the leopard in this video, and cross it's appearance with a pitbull and you've got yourself a Jag. @@dr8121
Ok? And?
Agreed!!!
Beezlebufo really was one "Built Different Fwoggy"🐸
this channel has popped off in less than 2 years. grats dude
The only dinosaur this frog could eat was one recently hatched.
The beelzebufo could also eat small dinosaurs and animals like newborns adult oviraptors, chompocognathus, a baby dimetrodon, an baby zebra shark, could eat more frogs insects, birds, raptors, newborn ankylosaurus, and other more
If it fits he eats @@jsyyanzon2258
Gotta love a video that covers a little freak, but also shouts out continental drift.
The land bridge to South America via Antarctica seems a lot less plausible than the possibility that Beelzebufo is a holdover from the Triassic Pangea, with Beelzebufo just facing a rapid extraction in mainland Africa after the breakup.
I was wondering about convergent evolution. The lesser tenrec looks almost exactly like a hedgehog, but is not closely related. It too is a native of Madagascar. Perhaps a similar process happened to these frogs.
I remember reading fablehaven as a kid and Olloch, a demonic frog, was based off of the beelzebufo
Oh yeah i read that too as a kid. The best part of it is when they found zombies. 😂
Oh my god, I've never met anyone else who read those books
Loved these books! Discovered them after playing the video game
Bro the guy who named it deserves a raise
And thanks man for talking about my favorite Animal in Prehistoric Planet..
Boi was so THICC tbh🐸
And Kermit's ancestors really stood a chance... 7:20
ancient Kermit was even built heavier than Miss Piggy
7:25 that slide was hilarious
1:47 All glory to the Hypnotoad......................
[Hypnotic Bass Sounds]
Can you make a video on the probable largest snake Vasuki Indicus recently discovered, which estimates its size to be bigger than Titanoboa...
0:47 angry frog
Paleontologists: This is a frog that is the size of a cat and could bite your hand off.
Ark players: Cementing boi
7:05 Hey! Scrappy Doo in frog form. 😂 Well, a very cranky Scrappy Doo.
I know modern frogs can scream like an ambulance, I can imagine this thin being capable of giving you tinnitus when it screamed. Perfect for telling a big dinosaur to f*ck off.
New videogame idea: The end of the flies
Your playing as a fly
In the same habitat as the belzebuffo
And you need to discover weapons like sticks and rocks and at the end you are face to face with
BELZEBUFFO
Attack:200
Defense:200
The all great belzebuffo the journey is over but belzebuffo is ready to stop you
No matter it takes
Beelzebufo actually had a short tongue, so it relied on patience to hunt its prey.
How can we determine details about things composed only of soft tissue when we only have bones (fossils) to make inferences from?
Suspend you logic, we are in the realm of imagination these days@Da_bear-ij9gm
@@Da_bear-ij9gmBecause soft tissue connects to bone, and bones are shaped to work well with soft tissue. In some cases we can know a lot about soft tissues based on bone structure.
All hail the Hypnotoad 😵💫
Hypnotoad is lord.😊
@@CarlCoppinger hypnotoad is life and salvation 😆
The idea of an osified frog is almost oxymoronic
Haters gonna hate
I saw this thumbnail and title, took a moment to process. Then I delightedly gasped, out loud, "Beezlebufo!"
I j-... I just didn't really know that I had that amount of feeling about beezlebufo, or in anything resembling that way. Like I'm watching live television at home and they're doing an interview with a respected expert, and he comes on screen and it is my wonderful handsome son beezlebufo who looks so good in his suit on TV! That kind of area of emotion.
It's just a lot to take in, learning you feel that way about anything. Let alone largest frogge.
Anyway, excellent the whole way through, subscribed.
"Before there was life, There was nothing, Before there was nothing...
There were Monsters"
I thought it was going to be the size of a buss looking at the thumbnail 😂
for some reason i was expecting it to be the size of a volkswagen beetle
love your work
Higher... bite-force... than a LEOPARD! :O Well I'll be damned...
4:47 That's a Jaguar
By reverse search image I think you might be correct.
Source: animals.howstuffworks.com/animal-facts/strongest-animal-bite-in-the-world.htm
According to legend, if you kiss a Belzebufo it turns into a boyfriend who plays in a metal band
Beelzebufo Ampinga may mean "devil frog" but I find it even more appropriate considering Beelzebub is known as the "Lord of Flies".
Frogs are my favorite animals and beelzebufo is my new favorite; a little vicious tank of a frog with an absolute badass name? 10/10
Beelzabufo is a baller name and I’m gonna name a dog that. One dog named Federal “Feddy” Nightmare and another dog named Beelzabufo, Buff for short. They will both be bully mutts or some pit bull mutt.
so Frog designs in Naruto were inspired by reality
Frog and fish eggs were often carried by birds in the modern times, I would suggest similar frogs could arrive at Madagascar via hitch hikes from pterosaurs.
Beelzebufo, also known as the “Devil Frog”. A Soccer Ball-Sized Amphibian, The Largest Known Frog to ever “Hop” the Earth.
That is a nice animation slides you created. Perhaps, you can work with Edge Science wherever you and he decides.
Brother spent half the video casting some crazy incantations but I'm here for it
I like to imagine a world where somehow beelzebufo evolved to become fully aquatic and eventually became a sea-dwelling frog whale.
5:31 croc puppy 🥺
I had no idea there were Araripesuchus in Madagascar. How did they get there? Gondwana had started to break apart long before that. Can't wiat for more answers for that
They swam?
@2degucitas so, they swam to Africa, crossed the entire continent, and then swam some more to reach Madagascar? Is that what you're saying?
@@danilodesouza6461 Yeah, it sounds silly. I guess we have to start with when did they appear in the geologic record and calculate how far apart the land masses are. It could be that the frogs were in Madagascar before the tectonic plates moved. Another possibility is birds eating the eggs, flying to the area and disgorging (throw up) the crop contents while feeding their chicks. Do you have any ideas to add?
@2degucitas araripesuchus was no frog, mate. It was a 40kg land croc from late cretaceous South America. I like your thoughts on migratory flying animals regurgitating eggs (or even bones) far away from their native range, though
1:30 bro the frog looking into my soul
I feel
Like there needs to be a game of thrones family that rides giant frogs like targarions ride dragons, and has giant frogs as the family sigil. Because wars between the families would be way cooler with giant frogs. 😂
still even though its that big i still think is a adorable little guy
Beelzebufo giant boss frog from Naruto
After just reading the title, I pictured a frog with a tiny voice threatening humans. "Fear me! I will crush you human; like my ancestors did! We were giants!"
Would like to see a video about Yangchuanosaurus on this channel. Also about Austroraptor
not surprised beazabufo is such a interesting and powerful beast Madagascar has always been a incredible biodiverse place about ten million years ago there were giant gorrila sized lemurs! 😮
A 275 lbs jaguar can crack a turtle shell , a 7 lbs frog, maybe it ate snails small crabs or something
Advert at the start of the video: fair enough.
Advert less that 2 mins after the video started: wtf?
Was hoping it was closer to a ton.
It would then be fit for the parody, “riders ON the toad.”
i thought the frog would be bigger... hatchling dinosaurs maybe their prey, but when they grew up, the dinosaurs would consider the frog their meal.
With that kind of bite force and poor mobility, I feel it would have made sense for it to have been a scavenger, as well as an ambush predator, sort of like an aquatic wolverine
thats kind cool and glad ARK the game has the Belzebuffo ..more Dinosaur vids please ...very interesting and i always did like Madagascar
I want a beelzebufo as a pet wow
Just get a pacman frog they are very close relatives
the first time I heard about this frog was on the Dinosaur Train website.
Due to the shape of a frog’s skull which has very little in the way of muscle connections for masseter, temporal and such: I can pretty confidently say 2200 newtons is either a typo or a misread. It doesn’t matter how big the frog’s mouth was, frog skulls aren’t designed for crushing bite force. For a predator like a leopard which does have a skull specially designed for biting to have only half the bite of a frog is unrealistic and dubious.
The frog would have to be about 50% larger than a leopard due to the physics working against it. Since it is the size of a chihuahua I’m going to call BS.
wonderful video, well done explaining frogs as well as the specific extinct devil frog
Thats the toad you get as an animal companion in D&D.
This really is a devil frog to the little dinos.
Imagine that singing voice
HELLO MY BABY HELLO MY HONEY
Consider how much larger animal were in the past. It’s hard to believe the largest from wasn’t much, MUCH bigger.
3:50 RIP FROG
Saw the thumbnail and name and said, out loud, in front of my mother, “the who-what that f**ing WHAT?!”
I had forgotten the existence of _Beelzebufo._. The only thing I recall about it was its name, of COURSE.
Don’t go to the past. Everything can and will try to kill you. :/
Take in mind some storms may carry frogs and fish thousands of miles of their basic residence and some of them may survive it while reaching the destination... it could be the case here as well, even if the continents weren't connected.
It's really hard to believe that a frog could bite harder than a leopard.
I want to get a Pacman frog now, just so I can name him that!
Cool animal and all, but I'm deeply dissapointed it wasn't the size of a small car like D&D giant frogs...
The great Wart from super mario bros 2
Imagine all the species with chitin ,keratin,cartilage skeletons,or external exoskeletons or some other form that never fossilized.
Maaan I was so close to subscribing to this channel, and along comes that video title
Big ole frog legs! Lots of nice eating on them. Humans hunted far larger prey, they'd have been on the menu for sure.
I always wake up in the Cretaceous. Then I realize when I actually am
"Beelzebufo" is the best animal name I've seen in a long time.
If you read revelations, you find that the gates of hell will be opened on earth, and locust type demons, 3 frog demons and Abadon the general of hell, will come out of it.
Yeah but most of the people here are interested in science rather than mythology
@@letsgetreal6402 If you are still alive when they show up, your disbelief won't matter. I find it strange when everything the bible prophesied is happening. 3 or 4 countries are attacking Israel as we speak.
Israel became a nation in 1948. all foretold and happening right now, and think your science will save you. Don't mock God if you know what is good for you. His judgement will be poured out full strength.
That means the evil people will de the worst this world has ever seen.
@@bobbyduke777 Notice how letsgetreal's comment was tame and you went all "don't mock God" and "judge the evil" over it. You probably have less chances to sit on the Father's lap than him but can't see it
Let's go frog gigging
Bro used a summoning jujutsu💀💀
Exactly
Kermit's ancestor was making a pig of himself.
Beelzebufo 100% sounds like the name of some college frat dude-bro