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150-million-year old, piranha-like specimen is earliest known flesh-eating fish
- October 19, 2018
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Researchers 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.
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"150-million-year old, piranha-like specimen is earliest known flesh-eating fish", MachPrinciple, October 19, 2018, https://machprinciple.com/post/150-million-year-old-piranha-like-specimen-is-earliest-known-flesh-eating-fish
