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 ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio - An ancient sea creature well known to Clevelanders was far more unusual than previously thought, according to new research by Case Western Reserve University and others. Dunkleosteus ...
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 to ...
For generations, Dunkleosteus terrelli, also known as Ohio’s state fossil fish, has been a familiar figure for those in the Cleveland area, regarded as one of prehistory’s great sea monsters. This ...
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 other ...