Offbeat: Reuters enjoys vilifying "baby dinosaur-eating devil frog"

The article was published in the science section, but probably belongs in the "oddly enough" (or humor) page:

"Ancient "devil frog" may have eaten baby dinosaurs"

"...It was the biggest, baddest, meanest froggy ever to have hopped on Earth..."

" ... [it] was so nasty it may have eaten newborn dinosaurs."

"... This brute was larger than any frog living today."

"... the biggest frog ever to have existed."

"...Its name, Beelzebufo ampinga, came from Beelzebub, the Greek for devil." (this etymology is incorrect: "Beelzebub" is a Hebrew-derived term. Anyway, back to the quotes.)

"... It probably didn't dine daintily." (oooo, understatement of the week I bet!)

"It's not outside the realm of possibility [oh, of course not!] that Beelzebufo took down lizards and mammals and smaller frogs, and even -- considering its size -- possibly hatchling dinosaurs." (the third reference to its apparent proclivity for eating baby dinosaurs, mind you.)

"... It would have been quite mean."

"... the scientists think Beelzebufo also may have had horns -- a fitting touch for the 'devil frog.'"

"...Beelzebufo lived during the Cretaceous Period [until] ... a huge space rock clobbered Earth." (funny that they didn't blame the clobbering huge space rock on the devil frog, hmm.)

" ... Beelzebufo did not live an aquatic lifestyle, hopping among lily pads." (oh no, that would be far too idylic a lifestyle for our bone-crushing, baby-dinosaur-snacking terror frog of doom!)

" ... [they liked to] camouflage themselves and jump out at prey." (boo! poor baby dinosaur.)

" ... it was the king of frogs." (just like the king of apes, only "even more scarier" I bet.)

Now, If you aren't too frightened - behold! The terrifying visage of the demon frog....

... Oh come on people - work with me here! Be scared. It's totally going to eat that frog and the pencil!

Seriously now, I'm all for paleontology. But is this how they have to sensationalize scientific findings in order to get the public interested and/or merit research grants? The entire basis for all this speculation quoted above is some bone fragments that prove ... a very large frog once existed.

So, unless they find a complete skeleton of the "devil frog" with a baby triceratops hanging out of its mouth, I'm not going to consider it a pre-historic monster. The worst it could do, I'm betting, was give you big warts.