PIRANHA PICTURES: Yard-long "Megapiranha" Fossil Found
Friday, June 26, 2009 - 17:28
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Three times longer than today's piranha--and with more teeth to boot--six-million-year-old Megapiranha solves an evolutionary mystery, a new study says.
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