Enlarge (credit: C. Marsicano) Gaiasia jennyae, a newly discovered freshwater apex predator with a body length reaching 4.5 meters, lurked in the swamps and lakes around 280 million years ago. Its wide, flattened head had powerful jaws full of huge fangs, ready to capture any prey unlucky enough to swim past. The problem is, to the best of our knowledge, it shouldn’t have been that large, should have been extinct tens of millions of years before the time it apparently lived, and shouldn’t have been found in northern Namibia.
Giant Salamander Species Found In What Was Thought To Be An Icy Ecosystem
Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica
Thu, 07/11/2024 - 1:00pm
BING NEWS:
- Giant salamander species found in what was thought to be an icy ecosystem
We know she was at minimum 2.5 meters long, probably 3.5, 4.5 meters—big head and a long, salamander-like body ... “Historically, we thought tetrapods [of that time] were living much ...
07/11/2024 - 9:00 am | View Link - Scientists discover giant aquatic predator from a time before dinosaurs
A study published Wednesday in Nature names the species Gaiasia jennyae — a salamander-like tetrapod ... to different climates than previously thought.” Christian A. Sidor, a professor ...
07/3/2024 - 9:52 pm | View Link - Giant salamander-like predator with fangs existed 40 million years before dinosaurs, research reveals
Scientists have revealed fossils of a giant salamander-like beast with sharp ... Pardo added that the species had a "big, flat, toilet seat-shaped head," "huge fangs" and "giant teeth." ...
07/3/2024 - 6:07 am | View Link - Giant salamander-like creature was a top predator in the ice age before the dinosaurs
And while Gaiasia jennyae is just one species, it yields big-picture information for paleontologists studying how the world was changing during the Permian period. "It tells us that what was ...
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