When fresh monster news comes around, we at Monster-Watch usually get so excited that we can't wait to write about them. But for today's report of a massive frog fossil from Madagascar, I think I'll let the research team describe it in their own words.

First off, the 70-million-year-old frog is called Beelzebufo, or "devil frog from hell."

Beelzebufo leers at his hors d'oeuvre, the largest living frog in Madagascar today. (Credit: Luci Betti-Nash, Stony Brook University)

"This frog, a relative of today's horned toads, would have been the size of a slightly squashed beach-ball."

"They are just these big round blobs, basically all mouth and stomach."

"These ceratophyrines are really aggressive, ambush predators.... They will sit there and grab onto anything that walks past... They're sometimes called Pac-Man frogs.... And at two or three times the size of the largest living ceratophyrines, Beelzebufo would have had quite a lot more attitude."

"When you consider its size, I don't think it's outside the realm of possibility that it could have consumed some hatchling dinosaurs." The largest living frog on Madagascar today, at only 4 inches, "would have been a nice hors d'oeuvre for Beelzebufo."

"When we found out that some of its relatives even have little horns on their heads, the 'devil frog from hell' seemed an even more appropriate name."

These quotes were plucked from comments by Susan Evans of University College London and David Krause of Stony Brook University from National Geographic, New Scientist, and the BBC.