Saturday, July 13, 2024

ARCHAEOLOGY: Pre-Flood "Swamp Thing" with fangs

And the waters returned from off the earth continually: and after the end of the hundred and fifty days the waters were abated. Genesis 8:3
This creature likely was left behind after the waters "abated".

"You might call it the "swamp thing." .... a large creature built
somewhat like a salamander but with frightful fangs prowled the swamps and lakes of what is now
Namibia, ambushing prey as a top predator in a chilly ecosystem long before the dinosaurs. 
The creature, named Gaiasia jennyae, lived during the Permian Period and measured at least 8 feet long - and perhaps up to 13 feet, according to researchers who
announced the discovery of its fossilized remains. 
Its large, round, flat skull measured more than 2 feet long, and it had interlocking fangs at the front of its mouth. The fossils were unearthed in Namibia, a country in southwest Africa. 
Because of the gradual movement over time of the crustal plates that form Earth's outer layer - a process called plate tectonics - this place was even further south when Gaiasia lived, almost even with Antarctica's current northernmost point." 
MS