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Fangs and toilet seat-shaped head: giant salamander-like fossil found in Namibia
A giant 280m-year-old salamander-like creature that was an apex predator before the age of the dinosaurs has been discovered by fossil hunters in Namibia. The creature, Gaiasia jennyae, was about 2.5 metres long, had an enormous toilet seat-shaped head and …