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 ...

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 ...

“It’s a Xiphactinus audax — they call it the X-fish,” said Detrich, a professional fossil hunter from Great Bend. His X-fish is almost 13 feet long and weighs about 700 pounds. There’s a ...

pteranodons and these two giant skulls that belonged to a species of carnivorous fish called Xiphactinus. Fossils the Bonner family have discovered are now part of prestigious museum collections ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mildred for example, is the largest xiphactinus ever found ... which features dozens and dozens of original fossils and replicas, like Stan the T-Rex. Although Stan serves as the centerpiece ...

The researchers began examining the fossil collection at the University of Kansas, focusing on three main suspects: mosasaurs (a group of giant swimming reptile), Xiphactinus (a genus of 20-foot ...