Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Onychodus (/ ɒ ˈ n ɪ k ə d ə s /, from Greek meaning "claw-tooth") [1] is a genus of prehistoric lobe-finned fish which lived during the Devonian Period (Eifelian - Famennian stages, around 374 to 397 million years ago).
Coelacanths are considered a poor source of food for humans and likely most other fish-eating animals. Coelacanth flesh has large amounts of oil, urea , wax esters , and other compounds that give the flesh a distinctly unpleasant flavor, make it difficult to digest, and can cause diarrhea .
Helicoprion is a genus of extinct shark-like [1] eugeneodont fish. Almost all fossil specimens are of spirally arranged clusters of the individuals' teeth, called "tooth whorls", which in life were embedded in the lower jaw. As with most extinct cartilaginous fish, the skeleton is mostly unknown.
One of the coolest, most prehistoric-looking fish lives in Florida’s offshore waters of the Gulf of Mexico. It happens to be one of the best to eat but also one of the most elusive.
Using three tests, researchers determined that the 780,000-year-old bones indicated that humans cooked fish before eating it, according to the study. This marks the earliest evidence that hominins ...
BY RINA NAKANO, FOX40 SACRAMENTO COUNTY — Photos of a mysterious fish caught in the Delta last week are going viral. The photos were posted on Facebook by a woman who said she reeled it in near ...
Members of the Eugeneodontiformes are further classified into different families, the most well-preserved members that have been discovered are commonly placed within the families Helicoprionidae ("spiral saws"), and Edestidae ("those which devour"), the former containing the genera Helicoprion, Sarcoprion, and Parahelicoprion, and the latter ...
Boaters have been injured, killed by Gulf sturgeon that jump out of the water. They can grow longer than 6 feet & have fleshy "whiskers" on its snout