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 ...

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 ...

The fossilized remains of a massive predatory fish that lived 80 million years ago is being dug out of an ancient seabed in southern Manitoba. The discovery of the six-metre long xiphactinus was made ...

Argentinean palaeontologists in Patagonia have found the remains of a massive carnivorous fish with razor sharp teeth. The species was "amongst the largest predatory fish that existed in the history ...

Alan Detrich has offered to give the state a giant fossil fish he says is worth $10 million. But he said he’s growing frustrated by the fishy politics his proposal has inspired in Topeka, and he might ...

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