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.

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 ...

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." ...

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 ...

Engleman used the fossilized head’s shape, minus the snout, to determine that Dunkleosteus was about 11-13 feet long, considerably shorter than earlier estimates, which were based on assumptions ...

We also have a state fossil fish, Dunkleosteus, named for Dr. David Dunkle, a paleontologist at the Smithsonian and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History from the 1940s to the 1970s.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...