My, What Big Teeth You Had! Extinct Species Had Huge Teeth On Roof Of Mouth

When the world’s land was congealed in one supercontinent 240 million years ago, Antarctica wasn’t the forbiddingly icy place it is now. But paleontologists have found a previously unknown amphibious predator species that probably still made it less than hospitable.

The species, named Kryostega collinsoni, is a temnospondyl, a prehistoric amphibian distantly related to modern salamanders and frogs. K. collinsoni resembled a modern crocodile, and probably was about 15 feet in length with a long and wide skull even flatter than a crocodile’s.

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Tagged as: Amphibians, Antarctica, Continents, Crocodiles, Frogs, Kryostega collinsoni, Paleontologists, Paleontology, Predators, Salamanders, Species, Supercontinents, Temnospondyl

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