SOURCE: At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs (All-Story Weekly, April 4-25, 1914)

DESCRIPTION: "A huge, slimy amphibian it was, with toad-like body and the mighty jaws of an alligator. Its immense carcass must have weighed tons, and yet it moved swiftly and silently toward me. Upon one hand was the bluff that ran from the canyon to the sea, on the other the fearsome swamp from which the creature had sneaked upon me, behind lay the mighty untracked sea, and before me in the center of the narrow way that led to safety stood this huge mountain of terrible and menacing flesh..." (At the Earth's Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs)

NOTES: One of Pellucidar's many dangers. Frazetta has made it too crocodilian. The body would be more toad-like.

HISTORY: It's just one damn thing after another...

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