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This Giant Swamp Creature With a Toilet Seat-Shaped Head Terrorized The Permian


File under ferocious predators we wouldn't want to meet during a swim on ancient Earth: the newly discovered Gaiasia jennyae was a large-fanged, salamander-like swamp creature with a skull around 60 centimeters (24 inches) long, researchers have revealed.

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