Wrecking balls' of the deep "Dunkleosteus has often been reconstructed assuming it had a body shape like a shark," Engelman said. But a shorter body and shape of the body armor also meant ...

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 ...

It was big. It was mean. And it could bite a shark in two. Scientists say Dunkleosteus terrelli [image] might have been "the first king of the beasts." The prehistoric fish was 33 feet long and ...

The concept of a giant fish isn't so scary unless you think of it like a shark. Dunkleosteus, however, has the distinct advantage of being a fearsome predator with an unbelievably threatening size ...

They're almost positive at least one will yield paydirt: a piece of it they previously removed and examined held a thick armor plate of bone that protected Dunkleosteus' upper body. Such specimens ...

Dunkleosteus terrelli – often portrayed as a 9-metre-long, armoured, shark-like predatory fish with bladed jaws instead of teeth – may have been a much smaller animal, with odd, chunky ...

Dunkleosteus was a massive armored fish that ruled the Devonian seas over 358 million years ago. With powerful, self-sharpening jaws and an immense bite force, it was one of the most fearsome ...

and to escape from even larger predators such as the huge placoderm Dunkleosteus and the equally large shark Ctenacanthus.” That placoderm was arguably one of the most terrifying fish of the ...

Then there's the great white shark, which is surely one of ... more chilling prehistoric sea creature to add to the list, the Dunkleosteus was a genus of underwater armored apex predators that ...

“The new proportions for Dunkleosteus may look goofy until you realize it has the same body shape as a tuna … and a mouth twice as large as a great white shark.” He acknowledges the ...

‘Wrecking balls’ of the deep “Dunkleosteus has often been reconstructed assuming it had a body shape like a shark,” Engelman said. But a shorter body and shape of the body armor also meant ...