An extinct genus of ray-finned fish that lived during the Jurassic period seems to have had quite the penchant for overreaching. A new analysis of fossilized Tharsis fish reveals that the carnivorous ...
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Researchers Studying Jurassic Fish Fossils Baffled to Find They Suffered a Rather Unusual Death — By Choking
Examination of a set of Tharsis fossils has revealed to researchers a possible cause of death for some of these creatures. This shocking cause of death was swallowing belemnites (squid-like ...
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The fossil of a newly discovered piranha-like fish from the Jurassic period. It likely used its sharp pointed teeth to feed on the fins of other fish. (M. Ebert/T. Nohl) (CN) – Bony ray-finned fish ...
A new fossil discovery looks more like an incredibly well-preserved 150 million-year-old Jurassic crime scene. This species of flesh-eating fish is considered the earliest known to do so. And in the ...
A study by Dr. Martin Ebert and Dr. Martina Kölbl-Ebert examined the remains of some 4,200 Tharsis fossil specimens. They found that some of these fish, all of which were subadults, would occasionally ...
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A pair of paleontologists at Universität Hohenheim's Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart has found a fossilized Jurassic-era fish that appears to have died after swallowing an overly large ...
Long ago in Jurassic seas, a devious new fish emerged. It belonged to a group called the pycnodontids, but it looked very different from the others. While its relatives had round, cobble-shaped teeth ...
If Jurassic Park had an aquarium, we know what would be in it. Scientists have just uncovered the remains of a 150-million-year-old flesh-eating fish that swam through the oceans wreaking havoc while ...
Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. An almost-complete fossil skeleton thought to belong to an Ichthyosaur, an ancient marine predator not dissimilar to a ...
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