Understandable - you can’t even do a DNA test on plaster or papier-mâché.
On the island of Madagascar, about 70 million years ago, there dwelled a giant devil frog, Beelzebufo ampinga, an extinct creature believed to be the biggest frog that ever lived on this planet. It was about 10 pounds. The current world record for the largest frog was an African “goliath” frog - it was on the high end of 7 pounds. So what I’m saying here is, this is clearly a species of frog unparalleled in both the modern world and the fossil record - we need to get all the batrachiologists on site, now, and the palaeontologists, too! They need to be swarming the place, this is a hugely important specimen!
Well, when you do taxidermy on a plaster frog, it naturally ends up looking quite different.
What’s interesting to me is that the original photo appears to be a photo-montage, yet the frog in it still doesn’t look real.
