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Story. A tremor has caused the prehistoric piranhas that were trapped underground to be unleashed in Lake Victoria, Arizona and began devouring anyone or anything that they came across.
Mar 2, 2020 · The result was a large, 20- to 30-pound carnivorous fish with sharp teeth that had “serrated cutting edges similar to a shark,” according to an article published by Scientific Reports. But even at 30 pounds, the extinct piranha and its bite was discovered to be far more powerful than expected.
Dec 26, 2012 · Reaching lengths in excess of one metre, this ancestor of today’s Serralsalmus genus most likely had a scaled-up bite force. The extinct super-predator shared its world with enormous crocodiles and turtles, being quite large with a very strong bite was an important adaptation for survival.
Scientists have unearthed the fossilised remains of a piranha-like species that they say is the earliest known example of a flesh-eating fish. This bony creature, found in South Germany, lived...
Oct 18, 2018 · This image shows a new piranha-like fish from Jurassic seas with sharp, pointed teeth that probably fed on the fins of other fishes. From the time of dinosaurs and from the same deposits that contained Archaeopteryx, scientists recovered both this flesh-tearing fish and its scarred prey.
Oct 19, 2018 · The ancestors of modern piranhas didn’t evolve until about 25 million years ago —long after dinosaurs went extinct—and today’s piranha species, including a few vegetarian fish, have been around...
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Jun 29, 2009 · Their razor-sharp teeth can tear chunks of flesh from creatures many times their size. Now scientists have rediscovered a fossil piranha jaw that shows how the fish got those choppers. The closest living relatives of piranhas are pacus, South American river fish that eat mostly plants.
