As a marine piranha-like fish contemporary with dinosaurs, it is the oldest known flesh-eating actinopterygian, revealing remarkable convergent evolution with modern piranhas." The study was ...

Hollywood has rather overstated the reputation of today's piranhas Scientists have unearthed ... say is the earliest known example of a flesh-eating fish. This bony creature, found in South ...

Languages; English. You can get in touch with Hannah by emailing [email protected] An ancient flesh-eating fish that was remarkably similar to modern day piranhas has been discovered.

The new species of bony fish had teeth like a piranha, which the researchers suggest they used as piranhas do: to bite off chunks of flesh from other fish. Researchers reporting in Current Biology ...

The idea of a flesh-eating fish may sound like something ... Article continues below The fish had teeth like a piranha, which it used to bite chunks of flesh from its victims.

This species of flesh-eating fish is considered the earliest ... "We were stunned that this fish had piranha-like teeth," study author Martina Kölbl-Ebert, director of the Jura-Museum in ...

The fossilized remains of the oldest-known flesh-eating fish with bony ... "We were stunned that this fish had piranha-like teeth," museum director Martina Kölbl-Ebert said in a statement.

Now, with a remake of Joe Dante's Piranha due next month, we get a bargain-basement 'mockbuster' about a super-sized school of the flesh-eating fish that go on the rampage in Venezuela.

"Piranhas are often depicted in films as man-eating fish, but the truth is they are ... and their depiction in film of being able to shred flesh from bone. In reality, piranhas mostly only eat ...

The new species of bony fish had teeth like a piranha, which the researchers suggest they used as piranhas do: to bite off chunks of flesh from other fish. As further support for that notion ...