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About 360 million years ago, the shallow sea above present-day Cleveland was home to a fearsome apex predator: Dunkleosteus terrelli. This 14-foot armored fish ruled the Late Devonian seas with ...

Dunkleosteus terrelli may have been the world's first apex predator. The force of its bite was remarkably powerful: 11,000 pounds. The bladed dentition of this 400-million-year-old extinct fish ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Cleveland’s iconic prehistoric sea monster—the 14-foot-long armored ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Newly described muscle anatomy (right) and overall jaw anatomy of Dunkleosteus terrelli (center), compared to a more typical ...

For nearly two decades, paleontologists thought they had Dunkleosteus terrelli figured out. This monstrous, 30-foot fish ruled Late Devonian oceans 360 million years ago. Scientists believed it used ...

Long before dinosaurs walked the land a massive armored fish called Dunkleosteus dominated ancient seas Its fossilized head plates and blade like jaws have led some to describe it as a "sea monster" ...

A big fish story? Maybe so: The greatest sea monster of the Devonian Period (Dunkleosteus terrelli) may be getting downsized. A new article contents that the famous sea monster of the Age of Fishes ...

A new study by Case Western Reserve University Ph.D. student Russell Engelman published in PeerJ attempts to address a persistent problem in paleontology—what were the size of Dunkleosteus and other ...

A fossil fish called Dunkleosteus was less svelte shark and more rotund tuna, but that only made it a fiercer predator in the seas of the Devonian Period. By Jack Tamisiea With a bite that could split ...