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Five million-year-old extinct 'super salmon' was 9 FEET long with a mouth full of spiked teeth
UK Daily Mail ^ | October 31, 2016 | Ryan O'Hare

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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TOPICS: Outdoors; Pets/Animals; Science
KEYWORDS: paleontology; salmon
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To: wastoute

Come to think of it, Steve is dead. hmmm.


21 posted on 10/31/2016 8:54:57 AM PDT by Mercat (Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when they do it out of conscience.” (Blaise Pascal))
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To: C19fan

We're gonna need a bigger cedar plank...

22 posted on 10/31/2016 10:08:20 AM PDT by AustinBill (consequence is what makes our choices real)
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To: AustinBill

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


23 posted on 10/31/2016 11:02:43 AM PDT by al_c (Obama's standing in the world has fallen so much that Kenya now claims he was born in America.)
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To: null and void
I could go for that caper...

grrrooooaaannn....

24 posted on 10/31/2016 11:30:22 AM PDT by Fido969
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To: C19fan

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.


25 posted on 10/31/2016 11:38:26 AM PDT by djf ("She wore a raspberry beret, the kind you find in a second hand store..." - Prince)
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