Named for David Dunkle, a former curator of vertebrate paleontology at the museum, Dunkleosteus terrorized the tropical sea that covered present-day Ohio when it was part of a land mass south of ...

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 ...

About 380 million years ago, late in the Devonian Period, the ocean waters that covered what is now Ohio were home to a fish that scientists named Dunkleosteus.. The predator was named for David ...

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.

The gigantic Dunkleosteus terrelli lived in Northeast Ohio around 358 million years ago, when that area of the state was submerged in water.

Science and Environment News; Big prehistoric fish story: Predator that once swam in water covering NE Ohio might be smaller than thought. Published: ; Mar. 03, 2023, 3:31 a.m.

The 20-foot-long, razor-jawed Dunkleosteus terrelli ate sharks when it plied the tropical waters that covered Ohio 380 million years ago. But it proved no match for a 19-year-old Ohio State ...

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." ...