A marine animal nicknamed “Dunk” can live in Lake Erie, one of North America’s five Great Lakes, as suggested by one of the American universities.
Scientists have learned that there was a giant “alien fish” with an “armored” head swimming in Earth’s oceans after traces of this unusual creature were found in a US lake about 360 million years ago. This was reported by the Daily Star.
Dunkleosteus is considered one of the largest fish species ever found in bodies of water on our planet and is believed to dominate the ocean that once covered what is now the United States.
In a new study, scientists have found new evidence for this gigantic creature in Lake Erie, one of North America’s five Great Lakes, located on the US-Canada border.
This discovery led scientists to speculate that they might be wrong about this marine life, which they thought was about 30 feet (9 meters) long. It turns out that Dunkleosteus, nicknamed “Dunk,” was actually around 13 feet (4 meters), roughly the same size as the average white shark.
“I looked at the literature, and it turns out that most previous authors talking about sizes basically just guessed by eye,” Russell Engelman, a doctoral student at Case Western University in Cleveland, told Live Science.
Just because the creature is smaller than expected doesn’t make it any less terrifying. Dunkleosteus had a bony “armored” skull and a huge jaw that could snap shut, applying 8,000 pounds of force to anything stuck between its teeth. These details suggest that he will still be a dangerous predator.
The huge sea monster lived about 419 to 358 million years ago and then died, most likely as a victim of changing conditions in the ocean during the “Hangenberg event” – a mass extinction when the oxygen level in the water dropped. .
The world’s largest collection of Dunkleosteus fossils is in the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.
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Source: Focus
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