Long before dinosaurs roamed the Earth, another giant predator claimed the top spot in its environment. Meet Gaiasia, a huge salamander-like creature that stalked the Permian swamps. In case you’re ...

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 ...

Its skull was more than 2 feet (0.6 meters) long, and researchers estimate the entire animal could have been to 8.2 feet (2.5 m) long, potentially making it the biggest creature of its kind, according ...