Image courtesy Farish A. Jenkins, Jr./Harvard University
Scientists recently uncovered fossils of an extinct amphibian called Gerrothorax pulcherrimus whose mouth opens sort of like a toilet seat. The jaws of all other vertebrates (animals with a backbone) open wide by hinging down from their skull, while this creature lifted its head up to open its choppers. Gerrothorax lived about 210 million years ago. It lived in warm lakes and ate fish with its toilet seat mouth. It was about three feet (one meter) long and was flat with short limbs.
Farish Jenkins, of Harvard University, said that Gerrothorax was "the ugliest animal in the world."
Read more about this freaky find on National Geographic News.
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that is creepy
THAT IS COOL
That is great that we all have the ability to learn about somthing that lived so long ago (210 million years)
this article is totally awesome! i love it!!!!
Thats weard animals have fossils in them
Animals long ago must have looked weird!