An ancient, 1-metric-ton fish nearly as long as a school bus had a bite more powerful than nearly everything alive today, a new study reveals.
Analyzing fossils of 360-million-year-old Dunkleosteus terrelli (specimen at left) enabled researchers to make a simple model of how the 10-meter-long fish bit its prey. (Arrows depict direction of muscle contractions.)
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