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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.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Outdoors; Pets/Animals; Science
KEYWORDS: paleontology; salmon
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Going to need heavier tackle.
1 posted on 10/31/2016 7:15:54 AM PDT by C19fan
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Sounds delicious
2 posted on 10/31/2016 7:19:27 AM PDT by Mr. K (Trump is running against EVERYONE. The Democrats, The Media, and the establishment GOP)
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To: C19fan

Mmmmm.... Lox.

3 posted on 10/31/2016 7:20:22 AM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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Get it into the smoker! Mmmmmmmm


4 posted on 10/31/2016 7:20:39 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: C19fan

Probably hunted seals, lol!


5 posted on 10/31/2016 7:22:55 AM PDT by going hot
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Oh, man! I’ll need a larger smoker.


6 posted on 10/31/2016 7:23:06 AM PDT by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: Yaelle

I'll bring the bagels and cream cheese!

7 posted on 10/31/2016 7:25:12 AM PDT by Fido969
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To: Fido969

Exactly how I like it, with capers! I’m coming over!


8 posted on 10/31/2016 7:26:12 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: C19fan

Friends of ours in Mexico used our small sailboat and our tackle to haul in a five foot barracuda. She (she had roe which our friend scooped out and ate) didn’t try to swallow the lure but struck at it and was hooked through the gill. They hauled it up into the boat which was only 11 feet long and had the two full sized men in it plus having to deal with sail etc. We tried to repeat the event multiple times but failed because the fish would simply bite through the leader. The tackle was a guitar string leader and a piece of white plastic. I am not making this up. We were camping on a beach in Yucatan in the early 70s. No tourists then.


9 posted on 10/31/2016 7:28:11 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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Here, too. Like braided cable. And I’ll have to get a smoking plank from the lumber yard for that bruiser.


10 posted on 10/31/2016 7:30:45 AM PDT by Viking2002 (My attitude in your rear view mirror may be bigger than it appears......)
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To: Yaelle

Me too. Put on another pot of coffee. ;o)


11 posted on 10/31/2016 7:30:45 AM PDT by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
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I developed a theory (actually less than a theory, more than a random thought) that the reason most animals are so much smaller physically now than in the past has to do with the quantity of biomass (ie. carbon) available and distributed around the planet. It is less now than it was. How do we know this? Coal, peat, oil all lock huge quantities away from use by life.

By digging all that stuff up and putting it back in the biosphere (by burning it) we are simply recycling the carbon to where it belongs.

If we invented a “clean” inexhaustible power source tomorrow, the environmentally responsible thing to do would be to dig up all that coal, etc. and burn it anyway. Leave it to the enviros to ALWAYS take the side of sterility and death.


12 posted on 10/31/2016 7:31:16 AM PDT by lafroste (Look at my profile page. Thanks.)
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To: going hot

Maybe even grizzlies!


13 posted on 10/31/2016 7:31:27 AM PDT by mellow velo
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I’m firing up my lawnmower right now. I’ll let it run all day.


14 posted on 10/31/2016 7:33:04 AM PDT by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
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It is a good thing you did not boat and eat it. Ciguatera. Only eat small ‘cuda. They taste like trout.


15 posted on 10/31/2016 7:34:07 AM PDT by wastoute (Government cannot redistribute wealth. Government can only redistribute poverty.)
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Ah, Mexico in the 70’s. San Blas was where I wanted to be buried when I died. But since then things have changed.


16 posted on 10/31/2016 7:34:42 AM PDT by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
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To: mellow velo

Picture the bear waiting patiently at the falls for the salmon to jump into it’s mouth, when suddenly the salmon jumps out and grabs the bear!


17 posted on 10/31/2016 7:38:02 AM PDT by going hot
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To: Fido969

I could go for that caper...


18 posted on 10/31/2016 7:40:10 AM PDT by null and void (Keep a sexual predator out of the White House, don't vote for his wife!)
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That’s some dangerous sushi.

I’m going to need extra wasabi and a bucket of soy sauce.


19 posted on 10/31/2016 7:57:16 AM PDT by angryoldfatman
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To: wastoute

Oh we gobbled it down. I totally understand the risks and unlike our friend Steve, we did not eat any of it raw but we ate it. We were living off the land down there and had not had that much protein in a long time. It was very yummy and here I am 40 plus years later alive and well.


20 posted on 10/31/2016 8:54:24 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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