Russell Engelman, a paleontologist pursuing his Ph.D. at Case Western Reserve University, recently compared the proportions of Dunkleosteus’s armor-clad head to the skull sizes of hundreds of ...

This fish story goes story goes back a ways. 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 ...

One of the largest ancient fish on record, known as Dunkleosteus, was actually half ... terrelli had a bony, armored skull attached to a skeleton of cartilage. And the skull of D.

They should provide an easier means for discovery that may also include the kind of small, prehistoric sharks that the Dunkleosteus would have feasted upon. The complete shape of sharks could be ...

Erie geologist Scott McKenzie is patiently putting together pieces of the skull and shoulder armor of that powerful prehistoric fish, Dunkleosteus, the rest of whose remains are embedded in sandy ...

Dunkleosteus was a massive armored fish that ruled the Devonian seas over 358 million years ago. With powerful, self-sharpening jaws and an immense bite force, it was one of the most fearsome ...

Named for David Dunkle, a former curator of vertebrate paleontology at the museum, Dunkleosteus terrorized ... armored plates that formed its skull and covered its belly. She does hope to find ...

Anderson and Westneat determined that the skull of Dunkleosteus was a four-bar linkage mechanism. They calculated that the mouth opened very fast, similar to modern fish that use suction to ...

Dunkleosteus lived late in the Devonian Period ... All we’ve had to go on were the bony plates that covered the skull and the very front of the body. The rest of the skeleton was made of ...

To determine the bite force, scientists used the fossilized skull of a Dunkleosteus terrelli to recreate the musculature of the ancient fish. This biomechanical model showed the jaw's force and ...

made foam rubber casts of the muscle cavities in a Dunkleosteus skull replica. The length and cross section of each muscle allowed them to calculate maximum contraction forces based on the typical ...