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The skull of the first giant creature to inhabit the Earth, the ichthyosaur Cymbospondylus youngorum. (Photo Natalja Kent, courtesy of the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.)

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The first giant creature to inhabit the earth, the ichthyosaur, dominated the earth's oceans in the Triassic period.

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