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Fantastic filter-feeding fish found fossilized

10-02-2016 8:44am

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Adam Khor

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http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/rhinconichthys-fossils-new-species-cretaceous-big-mouthed-fish-03620.html

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#2 15-02-2016 1:26pm

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Goodness, I never thought I'd see a creature whose mouth was wider than Jabba the Hutt's! And what a nasty expression! Heaven help us, Rhinconicthyus must have been someone's nagging wife or mother-in-law.

This was a big bony fish. Has it any living descendants?

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#3 15-02-2016 11:56pm

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No living descendants. Pachycormids such as these went extinct at the end of the Cretaceous, along with plesiosaurs, mosasaurs and the like.

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