Giant salamander fossils show early tetrapods survived longer …
WEB9 hours ago · These ancient creatures, also known as stem tetrapods, were the common ancestors of modern reptiles, amphibians, mammals, and birds. “Those animals lived up to what we call the end of ...
Giant salamander-like predator with fangs existed 40 million …
WEBJul 3, 2024 · Scientists have revealed fossils of a giant salamander-like beast with sharp fangs that ruled waters before the first dinosaurs arrived. The animal, researchers say, is roughly...
Unusual swamp creature was an ice age predator before the …
WEB6 days ago · Gaiasia lived in the middle of the Permian period, which spanned 298.9 million years to 251.9 million years ago. It thrived as a top predator 40 million years before dinosaurs evolved to roam the ...
Fossils show huge salamanderlike predator with sharp fangs …
WEB4 days ago · Researchers have long examined such ancient predators to uncover the origins of tetrapods: four-legged animals that clambered onto land with fingers instead of fins and evolved to...
Giant salamander-like creature was a top predator in the ice age …
WEBJul 3, 2024 · Meet Gaiasia jennyae, the swamp creature with a toilet seat-shaped head. It lived 40 million years before the first dinosaurs, and it was the top predator in its ecosystem.
Giant salamander-like creature was a top predator in the ice age …
WEBJul 3, 2024 · Scientists described the newly-discovered fossil in a paper in the journal Nature. Forty million years before the first dinosaurs evolved, a ferocious predator lurked in swampy waters. Its...
Bigheaded Salamander-like Fossil Turns Up in a Place No One …
WEBJul 3, 2024 · An ancient aquatic predator resembling a giant salamander turned up in an African fossil deposit, suggesting unwritten chapters of how animals moved onto land. An artist’s rendering of Gaiasia ...
Giant salamander-like creature was a top predator in the ice age …
WEBJul 3, 2024 · Forty million years before the first dinosaurs evolved, a ferocious predator lurked in swampy waters. Its skull alone was over two feet long. It lay in wait, its jaws open wide, preparing to clamp down its interlocking jaws on any prey unwise enough to …
WEBprehistoric salamander-like creature may have looked like. Researchers discovered a giant salamander-like predator that lived about 280 million years ago, using fossils recovered from...
Fossils show huge salamanderlike predator with sharp fangs …
WEBJul 3, 2024 · WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have revealed fossils of a giant salamanderlike beast with sharp fangs that ruled waters before the first dinosaurs arrived. The predator, which was larger than a person, likely used its wide, flat head and front teeth to suck in and chomp unsuspecting prey, researchers said.
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