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Sharklike Fish With Weird, Buzz-Saw Jaws Sliced Through the Seas, Then Vanished. Now, Paleontologists Are Unraveling Their Secrets
These "total monsters of fishes" are extinct today, though new clues about their lives come from CT scans and their closest ...
Deep in the ocean, you can find a strange fish with teeth not just in its mouth, but also on its head. The spotted ratfish, a relative of sharks, measures about two feet long and is found in the ...
The Atlantic wolffish is known for its powerful bite, capable of crushing hard-shelled prey with ease. Now, researchers have ...
More like 20,000 screams under the sea. Footage of a bizarre, ocean-dwelling wolffish that has two sets of scary-looking teeth is making waves online. The clip of the deep sea denizen’s nightmarish ...
The next time you wince from an ice-cold drink or a too-hot slice of pizza, blame your ancestors. Specifically, the armor-plated fish that swam Earth’s oceans over 460 million years ago. A new study ...
It's not what you do, it's how readily you do it. Rapid evolutionary change might have more to do with how easily a key innovation can be gained or lost rather than with the innovation itself, ...
An 11-year-old Oklahoma native has reeled in an exotic catch — one that is most certainly not native to Oklahoma. Charlie Clinton of Edmond, Oklahoma, caught an exotic, invasive fish known as the Pacu ...
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