The specimen was likely smaller than previously believed but no less scary.
on Thursday has revealed some terrifying details on the bony fish Dunkleosteus terrelli, nicknamed "Dunk," that lived during the Devonian period . It turns out it was not as big as previously believed but still as chunky and scary.The discovery was made by Russell Engelman, a doctoral student at Case Western University in Cleveland, Ohio.
Engelman found that the skull of the fish simply did not match up with a 30-foot-long body, so he decided to find out how the original researchers determined the size of Dunk. It was then that the real issues with the fish’s proportions emerged. "I went back through the literature, and it turned out that most previous authors who had talked about this were basically just eyeballing it," Engelman
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