A giant prehistoric salmon had large tusk-like spikes ... or injured a shark, dolphin, sea lion, or rival spike-toothed salmon." "Discoveries like ours show they probably weren't gentle giants ...
An archaeological survey has identified traces of hundreds of previously unknown monuments—including five "incredibly rare" prehistoric structures that may have once marked "routes for the dead ...
A spike-toothed salmon fossil is shown on display at the University of Oregon. About five million years ago, the largest salmon known to have lived migrated through the coastal waters of the ...
If a giant prehistoric salmon isn't scary enough for you, how about one with warthog-like tusks? According to a new study, Oncorhynchus rastrosus possessed just such appendages – even though the ...
Oncorhynchus rastrosus, a giant species of salmon that lived in the North American Pacific Northwest a few million years ago, sported a pair of front teeth that projected out from the sides of its ...
An eight to 10-feet-long prehistoric salmon species called Oncorhynchus rastrosus stalked the seas and streams of the Miocene. It weighed upwards of 400 pounds and was almost twice as long and ...
The artwork and publicity materials showcasing a giant salmon that lived five million years ago were ready to go to promote a new exhibit, when the discovery of two fossilized skulls immediately ...
Full and part skeletons found in Mexico reveal body shape and anatomy of Ptychodus as well as its likely diet Fossil experts say they have gained unprecedented insights into a type of enormous ...
Wexler is the senior properties historian for Grime’s Graves, a remarkable prehistoric site near Thetford where for several centuries in the late neolithic period, people dug huge mineshafts ...
A new paper says a giant salmon that lived five million years ago in the coastal waters of the Pacific Northwest used tusk-like spikes as defense mechanisms and for building nests to spawn. The ...
TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Fisheries Services is offering a $20,000 reward for information after a dolphin was found shot to death on a beach ...
A dolphin washed up on a western Louisiana beach with gunshot wounds, and now authorities are searching for the person responsible. Photo from NOAA Fisheries A young bottlenose dolphin was found ...