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 ...

It’s a reminder that more than 350 million years ago, during the Devonian Age of Fishes, Cleveland was covered by a shallow ...

About 360 million years ago, a huge armored fish patrolled a shallow sea that once covered what is now Cleveland. This animal, known as Dunkleosteus terrelli, has long held a place among the most ...

(WJW) – Ohio was once home to a fish that is believed to have been bigger than any living great white shark and might have even eaten sharks! It’s name: “Dunk” Well, “Dunk” for short. According to the ...

(WKBN) — Did you know Ohio has an official state fossil fish? The Ohio Department of Natural Resources goes in-depth on this extinct predator that could’ve once swam where Ohioans walk today.

A new study by Case Western Reserve University PhD student Russell Engelman published in PeerJ Life & Environment attempts to address a persistent problem in paleontology – what were the size of ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio - Here’s a bill that Republicans and Democrats dig. On Wednesday, the Ohio Senate unanimously passed a bill to make the Dunkleosteus terrelli the state fossil fish -- a nod to the ...

Feb. 20—CLEVELAND — Throw a fishing line into Lake Erie today and the biggest creature you could hope to catch would be a sturgeon, a very rare lake resident which might reach seven feet long and ...

Move over, Smokey Bear – the Ohio State Fairgrounds could soon be home to another, more historic icon. A life-size sculpture of a prehistoric fish is planned for the Ohio Department of Natural ...

CHICAGO -- It could bite a shark in two. It might have been the first “king of the beasts.” And it could teach scientists a lot about humans, because it is in the sister group of all jawed vertebrates ...