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.

A dunkleosteus skull, seen on display in the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris, France. (Wikipedia) ERIE, Pa. – Present-day Erie was under a saltwater ocean 364 million years ago.

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 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 ...

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 ...

Erie geologist Scott McKenzie is patiently putting together pieces of the skull and shoulder armor of that powerful prehistoric fish, Dunkleosteus, the ERIE, Pa. (AP) — Present-day Erie was ...

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 ...

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 ...