Yahoo News (USA) March 23rd, 2015 09:08 PM: Car-Size Salamander with Toilet-Seat Head Ruled Ancient Rivers

An international team of scientists found several skulls and various other bones — including those of the arm, shoulder and backbone of the amphibian, now called Metoposaurus algarvensis — in an ancient lake bed in southern Portugal. This creature, along with most metoposaurids and half of Earth's species, died out at the end of the Triassic period, about 201 million years ago.


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