150-million-year old, piranha-like specimen is earliest known flesh-eating fish
Thursday, October 18, 2018 - 10:20
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Researchers reporting in Current Biology on October 18 have described a remarkable new species of fish that lived in the sea about 150 million years ago in the time of the dinosaurs. The new species of bony fish had teeth like a piranha, which the researchers suggest they used as piranhas do: to bite off chunks of flesh from other fish.