“It’s got a big, flat, toilet seat-shaped head ... In this way, the creature is similar to the Chinese giant salamander, the world’s largest amphibian which also ambushes prey and sucks ...

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," says Jason Pardo ...

A study published Wednesday in Nature names the species Gaiasia jennyae — a salamander-like tetrapod ... and it had a broad, flat, diamond-shaped head and enlarged, interlocking fangs, the ...

Giant salamander-like predator that lived 40 million ... said in a separate statement. "It's got a big, flat, toilet seat-shaped head, which allows it to open its mouth and suck in prey," Pardo ...

A giant salamander called the "hellbender" is on its ... Their skin is wrinkly and comes in shades of brown and gray. They have wide, flat heads, tiny beady eyes and long, flat tails.

WASHINGTON — Scientists have revealed fossils of a giant salamander-like beast with sharp ... likely used its wide, flat head and front teeth to suck in and chomp unsuspecting prey, researchers ...

but that wide flat head wouldn't have been very hydrodynamic,” says Pardo. These features and other physiological characteristics meant that the ancient giant salamander likely hid, then ambushed its ...

An ancient aquatic predator resembling a giant salamander turned up in an African ... an eel-like body and a flat head full of jutting fangs. And according to existing ideas about vertebrate ...

You never forget your first time seeing a giant salamander, according to Andy Hill ... The slimy, brown creature with a broad, flat head may never win a beauty contest, but it is famous as ...