A massive, fanged creature with a head shaped like a toilet seat lurked in swamps near the edge of the world 280 million years ago, long before the first dinosaurs appeared, new research has found.

Long before dinosaurs roamed the Earth ... At that time, this region wasn’t where modern-day Africa currently sits, but was much farther south, right near Antarctica. Earth was just coming ...

The fanged creature had a skull more than two feet-long, and lived in swampy waters 40 million years before dinosaurs first evolved. Called Gaiasia jennyae, the swamp creature with a toilet seat ...

We are both familiar with dinosaur tracks from our research in Canada, so we decided to investigate the possibility of tracks in South Africa’s Western Cape. We found some – and, once we knew ...

This dinosaur-like beast is said to resemble a long-necked, rotund sauropod. It wades through the swamps and rivers of the Congo Basin in Central Africa, the local Bantu people told European ...