WASHINGTON – It was the first super predator of the ancient seas and its fearsome, jagged jaws still inspire awe 400 million years later. The armor-plated fish Dunkleosteus was a 33-foot-long , 4-ton ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio — Deep in the basement of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, they're telling fish stories. "It was this big!" exclaims Dr. Caitlin Colleary, with arms outstretched. The ...
Dunkleosteus terrelli may have been the world's first apex predator. The force of its bite was remarkably powerful: 11,000 pounds. The bladed dentition of this 400-million-year-old extinct fish ...
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Scientists reevaluate Cleveland’s iconic sea monster
For generations, Dunkleosteus terrelli, also known as Ohio’s state fossil fish, has been a familiar figure for those in the Cleveland area, regarded as one of prehistory’s great sea monsters. This ...
is named in honor of Dunkle. The construction of Interstate 71 in the 1960s was a boon to Devonian fossil hunters. The massive earth-moving operation uncovered new specimens unknown to science and ...
Move over, Smokey Bear – the Ohio State Fairgrounds could soon be home to another, more historic icon. A life-size sculpture of a prehistoric fish is planned for the Ohio Department of Natural ...
COLUMBUS, Ohio - Here’s a bill that Republicans and Democrats dig. On Wednesday, the Ohio Senate unanimously passed a bill to make the Dunkleosteus terrelli the state fossil fish -- a nod to the ...
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Dunkleosteus - the armored giant that ruled a vanished ocean
Long before dinosaurs walked the land a massive armored fish called Dunkleosteus dominated ancient seas Its fossilized head plates and blade like jaws have led some to describe it as a "sea monster" o ...
WAKEMAN, Ohio – Along a stretch of the Vermilion River, in the shadow of the Ohio Turnpike, Caitlin Colleary of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History expects to find fossil evidence of the fierce, ...
A big fish story? Maybe so: The greatest sea monster of the Devonian Period (Dunkleosteus terrelli) may be getting downsized. A new article contents that the famous sea monster of the Age of Fishes ...
A fossil fish called Dunkleosteus was less svelte shark and more rotund tuna, but that only made it a fiercer predator in the seas of the Devonian Period. By Jack Tamisiea With a bite that could split ...
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