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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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

SCIENTISTS have uncovered a sea beast that was a cross between a Great White shark and an Amazonian catfish. Dubbed Dunkleosteus terrelli, the creature roamed the seas during the Devonian period, ...

The Dunkleosteus Terrelli was a giant, prehistoric armored fish. It got its name after the Lorain County man who discovered its fossilized remains on a Sheffield Lake beach in 1867. The Cleveland ...

An illustration of the Devonian-period fish Dunkleosteus at its old presumed length of about 30 feet. A 360 million-year-old sea monster that was once thought to be as big as a bus was actually less ...