Predators with Toilet Seat-Shaped Head Existed Before Dinosaurs [Video]

Another day, another major prehistoric discovery.

Scientists are sharing their findings after discovering and studying fossils of a predator similar to salamanders, which are believed to have been a top predator millions of years before dinosaurs evolved.

“Gaiasia jennyae was considerably larger than a person, and it probably hung out near the bottom of swamps and lakes,” Jason Pardo, an NSF postdoctoral fellow at the Field Museum in Chicago said, according to a press release.

“It’s got a big, flat, toilet seat-shaped head, which allows it to open its mouth and suck in prey. It has these huge fangs, the whole front of the mouth is just giant teeth,” added Pardo, who also co-authored a Nature article about their findings.

Pardo said that the creature was “a big predator, but potentially also a relatively slow ambush predator.”

Gaiasia jennyae takes its name from the area where the fossil was discovered, the …