Dr. Colleary points to the bony-plated skull of an extinct giant carnivorous fish. "This is dunkleosteus. It was living here in Cleveland about 359 million years ago when Cleveland was the ocean." ...

A life-sized sculpture of the Dunkleosteus terrelli – Ohio's officials state fossil fish – could soon be on display at the state fairgrounds in Columbus.

image: Modification of Reconstructed proportions of specimens of Dunkleosteus terrelli using the total lengths estimated by Ferron et al. (2017) using UJP. view more Credit: CC BY Russell Engelman.

A new study by Case Western Reserve University Ph.D. student Russell Engelman published in PeerJ attempts to address a persistent problem in paleontology—what were the size of Dunkleosteus and ...

The Cleveland Museum of Natural History acquired more than 60 acres along the Vermilion River near Wakeman to create Wolf Run Preserve.

A prehistoric "Jaws" that roamed the seas 400 million years ago had the most powerful bite of any known fish. The extinct creature, Dunkleosteus terrelli, could bring its jaws together with a ...

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 ...