Posted on 10/31/2016 7:15:54 AM PDT by C19fan
A giant extinct salmon used a mouthful of spiked teeth to fight rivals more than five million years ago. The coastal waters of the Pacific were home to the bizarre species with huge teeth, a new study shows. The spike-toothed salmon reached sizes of three to nine feet in length (0.91 to 2.7m) - much larger than the typical salmon found in the Pacific today.
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Come to think of it, Steve is dead. hmmm.
We're gonna need a bigger cedar plank...
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Here in the Pacific Northwest, you can see on almost every river, the pilings of the old salmon loading docs and canneries.
If you search for “old salmon catches” on Google or whatever you will see pics of boats LOADED TO THE GILLS full of five and almost six footers.
Plus, I have heard that the old fish weren’t like two or three year fish - they were six and seven year, even longer fish.
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