巨蛙大得可能连刚孵化的小恐龙都吃得下。
“它好像会吃人似的,”一个小朋友指着巨蛙的肚子说。
"Looks like he ate a human," said one, pointing at the frog's stomach.
展出这只巨蛙的常设展览还复原了一种食草短吻鳄和小型食肉龙的外形。
The immense frog is part of a permanent exhibition that also features reconstructions of a vegetarian pug-nosed crocodile and a small meat-eating dinosaur.
现在陈列在纽约州立大学石溪分校医学中心的是一只生活在恐龙时代、个头有如充气沙滩球的巨蛙。
Now appearing in the lobby of Stony Brook University Medical Center: a frog that lived in the era of the dinosaurs and is as big as a beach ball.
然而,有关“巨蛙”的最新发现表明,马达加斯加和南美洲之间曾经由一条大陆桥连接,直到恐龙时代后期消失。
However, the giant frog finding suggests that a land bridge between Madagascar and South America remained until late into the dinosaur age.
克劳斯博士及其同事相信,巨蛙与吃豆蛙有亲缘关系,这种蛙现今生活在南美,因电子游戏“吃豆人”而得名。
Krause and his colleagues believe that the frog is related to the Pac-Man frog, a modern-day species in South America that is named for the video game character.
他们还想知道其他的动物,比如巨蜥、蓝舌蜥是否也适用这种引导方法,不去捕食毒蛙。
They would also like to see if other species such as goannas and bluetongue lizards could be taught not to eat cane toads.
它们的贪食和巨口使他们和其他角蛙在宠物市场上赢得了“吃豆蛙”的外号。
Their ravenous appetite and huge mouths have earned them and other horned frogs the pet-trade nickname "Pac Man frogs."
它们的贪食和巨口使他们和其他角蛙在宠物市场上赢得了“吃豆蛙”的外号。
Their ravenous appetite and huge mouths have earned them and other horned frogs the pet-trade nickname "Pac Man frogs."
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