This charming looking character is a new species of ancient carnivorous amphibian, reconstructed from a fossil discovered in western Pennsylvania by researchers from the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.

The 300-million year old beastie has been named after the man who discovered the skull on which its description was based (Adam Striegel) and the company which owned the land the skull was found on (FedEx). Take a bow, Fedexia striegeli.

In their paper on Fedexia striegeli in Annals of Carnegie Museum, the researchers note the animal is representative of a wide variety of amphibians and amniote tetrapods “that record the earliest occurrence of vertebrates adapted to a terrestrial existence in North America”. They suggest this move onto land was driven by a global trend towards drier conditions.

Image: Mark A. Klingler/Carnegie Museum of Natural History