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 ...

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 ...

Life Ancient fish thought to be larger than sharks was actually quite short. Dunkleosteus terrelli was an armoured predator fish with bladed jaws instead of teeth that lived 360 million years ago ...

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 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 ...

Fossil hunt Bob Carr, Glenn Storrs and George Kampouris are fishing on the banks of Big Creek this warm autumn afternoon, but they're not using bait and tackle. Sledgehammers, pry bars, ladders ...

One of the largest ancient fish on record, known as Dunkleosteus, was actually half as long, but still super chunky, a new study finds. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

It was big. It was mean. And it could bite a shark in two. Scientists say Dunkleosteus terrelli might have been "the first king of the beasts." The prehistoric fish was 33 feet long and weighed up ...

Dunkleosteus terrelli may have died out millions of years ago, but he’s world-famous, with most of the important fossils found in the great state we call home.” Senate Bill 123 now heads to ...

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 ...