The monster Tyranno-sea-rus
Tyranno-sea-rus ... how extinct fish may have looked
By MICHAEL DAY
November 29, 2006
MEET history’s scariest fish — a four-ton monster with the bite of a T-Rex.
The 33ft terrifying Dunkleosteus terrelli roamed the oceans 400million years ago.
Scientists who found fossils say its huge jaws could snap sharks in two, delivering the strongest bite of any fish ever at a force of 11,000lb.
Metal monster ... experts built model to see how huge jaws work and, inset, a shark
would be considered small fry to Dunkleosteus terrelli
And as it opened its mouth the suction was so great it drew in everything in its path.
University of Chicago researchers, who built a metal version based on the bones, told Royal Society journal Biology Letters it was the first “king of the beasts”.
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A woman weighing ten stones can exert up to 1,800 pounds per square inch per stiletto — 45 such women would be equal to just one tooth of a Dunkleosteus.
thesun.co.uk

Tyranno-sea-rus ... how extinct fish may have looked
By MICHAEL DAY
November 29, 2006
MEET history’s scariest fish — a four-ton monster with the bite of a T-Rex.
The 33ft terrifying Dunkleosteus terrelli roamed the oceans 400million years ago.
Scientists who found fossils say its huge jaws could snap sharks in two, delivering the strongest bite of any fish ever at a force of 11,000lb.

Metal monster ... experts built model to see how huge jaws work and, inset, a shark
would be considered small fry to Dunkleosteus terrelli
And as it opened its mouth the suction was so great it drew in everything in its path.
University of Chicago researchers, who built a metal version based on the bones, told Royal Society journal Biology Letters it was the first “king of the beasts”.
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A woman weighing ten stones can exert up to 1,800 pounds per square inch per stiletto — 45 such women would be equal to just one tooth of a Dunkleosteus.
thesun.co.uk