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 ...

A reconstruction of Xiphactinus at the Museum of Ancient Life in Utah. Brian Switek is a freelance science writer and a paleontology volunteer with the Natural History Museum of Utah. He is also ...

Object Details Collector L. J. Pepperberg Geologic Age Mesozoic - Cretaceous - Late Record Last Modified 17 Oct 2024 Skeletal Morphology dermal bone element, scale (s)- (MANY) Stratigraphy Colorado Sh ...

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Topeka? A noted fossil hunter is looking for someone to buy and display the remains of a 17-foot-long prehistoric fish that he unearthed — likely 88 million years after it died — in western Kansas.

Xiphactinus is one of the great also-rans of pop paleontology. An enormous fish that swam the long-vanished sea which once blanketed the middle of North America during the Late Cretaceous, it isn’t ...

Fossil hunter Alan Detrich hopes to put a sea monster in the Statehouse. For Kansas' 150th birthday in January 2011, Detrich is willing to donate to the state a fossil of either a Xiphactinus or a ...

This isn't your grandpa's fishing tale -- this whopper is real. OK, the fish, known as a Xiphactinus, may have been dead for about 88 million years, so it didn't put up much of a fight. And it can't ...

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 ...

skull elements, pre maxilla, partial maxilla, jaw fragments, axial elements, vertebrae Stratigraphy ...