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Welcome to another edition of Cool Stuff Ride Home, Marcus Baff. As always, joined by Reggie Rizzou.

On today's post-holiday episode,

scientists reveal a new giant salamander-like creature

that lived before the dinosaurs.

Crazy.

And on this day in history, the first travel agency

is formed, if you're old enough to remember what

those were, you'll love this. Let's come up on cool stuff. On Tuesday, Marcus had a story about

discovering an extinct snake that was about as long as a whale. Now scientists have revealed

fossils of a giant salamander-like beast with sharp fangs that ruled the waters before the first

dinosaurs arrived. So about 272 million years ago, that's about 40 million years before dinosaurs evolved.

Researchers say the predator is described as being larger than a person and that it likely

used its wide, flat head, and front teeth to suck in and chop on suspecting prey.

The skull alone was about two feet long.

The findings were published in the journal Nature.

They named the beast Gaia Gia, Genae, as an homage to Gaya's formation in Namibia, where

the fossil was found and Jenny Clack, a paleontologist

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