Topeka? A noted fossil hunter is looking for someone to buy and display the remains of a 17-foot-long prehistoric fish that he unearthed — likely 88 million years after it died — in western Kansas.

Topeka? A noted fossil hunter is looking for someone to buy and display the remains of a 17-foot-long prehistoric fish that he unearthed — likely 88 million years after it died — in western Kansas.

Nebraska’s Hastings Museum recently commissioned Staab Studios to build a model of a bony prehistoric predator from the genus Xiphactinus. Staab helpfully recorded their progress sculpting this beast ...

This isn't your grandpa's fishing tale -- this whopper is real. OK, the fish, known as a Xiphactinus, may have been dead for about 88 million years, so it didn't put up much of a fight. And it can't ...

Xiphactinus was one of the largest bony fish of the Late Cretaceous and is considered one of the fiercest creatures in the sea. A powerful tail and winglike pectoral fins shot the 17-foot-long ...

The oceans of the Cretaceous of North America teemed with life. Gigantic fish and enormous marine reptiles hunted the Western Interior Sea. A unique new fossil demonstrates rare evidence of direct ...

Some 70 million years, give or take, after its body settled into the muddy bottom of the Western Interior Seaway that we now know as the Mancos shale, the jaws of a 15-foot xiphactinus are on display ...

Learn how a fossil tooth embedded in a plesiosaur reveals a violent attack by a giant predatory fish in the Cretaceous sea. In the Western Interior Sea — a vast waterway that once split North America ...

The new season also features fish—namely Xiphactinus, a rather terrifying ocean dweller. Looking every bit like someone gave a grouper a set of fake vampire teeth, Xiphactinus may have grown up to 20 ...