They're almost positive at least one will yield paydirt: a piece of it they previously removed and examined held a thick armor plate of bone that protected Dunkleosteus' upper body. Such specimens ...

Previous size estimates for Dunkleosteus were largely based on this animal’s mouth and jaws, but these methods were never tested to see if they reliably estimated the size of placoderms.

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 ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Here’s a bill that Republicans and Democrats dig. On Wednesday, the Ohio Senate unanimously passed a bill to make the Dunkleosteus terrelli the state fossil fish -- a nod to the ...

The request, to be considered by the state Controlling Board on Monday, seeks $70,265 for the faux Dunkleosteus terrelli, several months after lawmakers designated the extinct creatures as the ...

A prehistoric "Jaws" that roamed the seas 400 million years ago had the most powerful bite of any known fish. The extinct creature, Dunkleosteus terrelli, could bring its jaws together with a ...