Toothy 3-foot piranha fossil found
Thursday, June 25, 2009 - 18:56
in Paleontology & Archaeology
A newly uncovered jawbone of a transition species, named Megapiranha paranensis, bridges the evolutionary gap between flesh-eating piranhas and their plant-eating cousins.
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