Picture this a moment, if you will, please. You leave your house to take a walk. You turn the corner and suddenly come face to face with a huge, extremely vicious, beast straight out of a John Carpenter movie. It is about ten feet long with a head around two and a half feet long and resembling that of a dog or a lion except that the eyes are on the side of the head like a lizard. Those 4 inch long saber toothed fangs, however, are very much like that of a lion. The body is like a lizard and covered with scales.

Right now you are probably wondering what piece of mythology or what movie this creature is from. Here is your surprise. This strange combination of mammal and reptile featured animal actually did walk the earth. Scientists searching in the Karoo region of South Africa have recently uncovered the first complete fossil of this creature ever to be unearthed.

Affectionately named gorgonopsid and called