It’s a matter of reproduciblility. If a fossil like the Xiphactinus skeleton isn’t permanently stored and cared for in a museum, then no one can re-examine or check on what has been gleaned ...

A cast of the prehistoric fish Xiphactinus at the American Museum of Natural History. Photo by Flickr user Ryan Somma, (CC BY-SA 2.0) But the most joyous fossil news of the week has to do with the ...

Alan Detrich found the Xiphactinus protruding from a hillside between Scott City and Oakley in 2007. He calls it the Kansas King Fish and has spent the past two years assembling the fossil ...

The discovery of the six-metre long xiphactinus was made by staff of the Canadian Fossil Discovery Centre (CFDC) in late 2009 but it wasn't confirmed until the bones were being cleaned during the ...

In 2004, he offered to give the state a fossil of a Xiphactinus addax, a predatory bony fish, in an attempt to get anything recognized as the state fossil. He asked for a tax deduction in return.

Nebraska’s Hastings Museum recently commissioned Staab Studios to build a model of a bony prehistoric predator from the genus Xiphactinus ... NotCot] Design Fish fossils Paleontology Sculpture ...

A 90-million-year-old fossil of what is believed to have been ... Discovered After 1,500 Years Frozen in Ice Known formally as Xiphactinus audax, it was a huge fish that occupied the waters ...