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Approximately 201.3 million years ago the Triassic Period ended, taking most of the large land animals with it in a large extinction event. This mass extinction kickstarted the Jurassic Period and the diversification of dinosaurs, which spread out to fill the niches emptied by the extinction.

These gigantic stick insects, once a common species on its home land, were wiped out in just two years by an invasive species. 80 years later, the last living population of the species is discovered in an unlikely place across the waters.

The gigantic salmon, reaching 2 meters (6.5 ft) in length and weighing just shy of half a ton, had teeth that resembled a saber-toothed cat. Or so they thought.