Giant swamp creature with ‘huge fangs’ top predator before dinosaurs – study

Gaiasia jennyae had interlocking jaws which it used to clamp down on prey as it swam past. Picture: Gabriel Lio/PA
A giant salamander-like creature was a top predator in the ice age before dinosaurs, a new study suggests.
The fanged creature had a skull more than two feet-long, and lived in swampy waters 40 million years before dinosaurs first evolved.