Beelzebufo is a predator whose expansive mouth allows it to eat relatively large prey, perhaps even juvenile dinosaurs. Bite force measurements suggest that the bite force of a large Beelzebufo (skull width 15.4 cm) may have been between 500 and 2200 N. The head and body of the Beelzebufo are covered in bony scales, giving it defence against some larger predators, it also secretes a toxin like some modern frogs and toads that is highly toxic.
ABILITIES
Like modern poison dart frogs the Beelzebufo secretes its toxin through its skin and between the bony plates that cover it, unlike the poison dart frog the Beelzebufo has a gland that produce the toxin rather than relying on its diet to accumulate the toxins required. This gland also secretes the toxin on the frogs long tongue, allowing it to easily subdue food. The toxin is a highly potent alkaloid toxin that prevents its victim's nerves from transmitting impulses, leaving the muscles in an inactive state of contraction, which can lead to heart failure or fibrillation as well as suffocation due to inability to breath.
One milligram of toxin produced by the Beelzebufo is sufficient in theory to kill a dozen African elephants, or between sixty and a hundred humans, or over fifty thousand mice. While some birds and snakes have developed immunity to modern toxic frogs, there is no immunity or anti-venom to the Beelzebufo toxin, and its onset and lethality are almost immediate.
HABITAT
Like many modern frogs of a similar genus, the Beelzebufo prefers natural habitats that include subtropical and tropical, moist, lowland forests, subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland, subtropical or tropical, moist, montanes and rivers, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, lakes and swamps. Other species can be found in seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, arable land, pastureland, rural gardens, plantations, moist savanna and heavily degraded former forest.
NOTES
Beelzebufo is a predator whose expansive mouth allows it to eat relatively large prey, perhaps even juvenile dinosaurs. Bite force measurements suggest that the bite force of a large Beelzebufo (skull width 15.4 cm) may have been between 500 and 2200 N. The head and body of the Beelzebufo are covered in bony scales, giving it defence against some larger predators, it also secretes a toxin like some modern frogs and toads that is highly toxic.
ABILITIES
Like modern poison dart frogs the Beelzebufo secretes its toxin through its skin and between the bony plates that cover it, unlike the poison dart frog the Beelzebufo has a gland that produce the toxin rather than relying on its diet to accumulate the toxins required. This gland also secretes the toxin on the frogs long tongue, allowing it to easily subdue food. The toxin is a highly potent alkaloid toxin that prevents its victim's nerves from transmitting impulses, leaving the muscles in an inactive state of contraction, which can lead to heart failure or fibrillation as well as suffocation due to inability to breath.
One milligram of toxin produced by the Beelzebufo is sufficient in theory to kill a dozen African elephants, or between sixty and a hundred humans, or over fifty thousand mice. While some birds and snakes have developed immunity to modern toxic frogs, there is no immunity or anti-venom to the Beelzebufo toxin, and its onset and lethality are almost immediate.
HABITAT
Like many modern frogs of a similar genus, the Beelzebufo prefers natural habitats that include subtropical and tropical, moist, lowland forests, subtropical or tropical high-altitude shrubland, subtropical or tropical, moist, montanes and rivers, freshwater marshes, intermittent freshwater marshes, lakes and swamps. Other species can be found in seasonally wet or flooded lowland grassland, arable land, pastureland, rural gardens, plantations, moist savanna and heavily degraded former forest.