Fossil fish had a HUUUGE mouth

Tuesday, February 9, 2016 - 09:10 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Researchers have uncovered a couple of new fossils of fish that dined on plankton. They come from the genus Rhinconichthys, lived around 92 million years ago, and to say they were big-mouths doesn’t do them justice. Examples of Rhinconichthys are rare, according to DePaul University’s Kenshu Shimada. Just one previous example has turned up, in the United […]

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