Whoa, it's the killer fish from Hell! Xiphactinus was a HUGE (upwards of 16 feet long) predatory bony fish that ate other fish (including sharks) and even young plesiosaurs and mosasaurs.
This guy was like a worst-nightmare cross between a giant grouper and a barracuda, but much bigger than either one. It also seems to have been a cannibal, and ate just about anything that could fit in its huge stomach.
In the hall of Mesozoic life at the Field Museum in Chicago there are several impressive dinosaurs, but the cases along the walls have many other wonderful things, like a huge Xiphactinus! Very nice!
Too much blue! what part is supposed to be what?
CREEPY. But cool.
Whoa, it's the killer fish from Hell! Xiphactinus was a HUGE (upwards of 16 feet long) predatory bony fish that ate other fish (including sharks) and even young plesiosaurs and mosasaurs.
This guy was like a worst-nightmare cross between a giant grouper and a barracuda, but much bigger than either one. It also seems to have been a cannibal, and ate just about anything that could fit in its huge stomach.
In the hall of Mesozoic life at the Field Museum in Chicago there are several impressive dinosaurs, but the cases along the walls have many other wonderful things, like a huge Xiphactinus! Very nice!