THE DUNK

All things Dunkleosteus (and paleontology) related

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[dunkleosteus-stan]

Megalodon got bigger. What is wrong with this world

[dvinia]

dunk design for a pal

based on brook trout

[dunkleosteus-stan]

They should recreate The Meg but with dunkleosteus instead

[paleotanks]

Devonian Sea, Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, Norman, OK

[tapiocapo]

Dunkly

[itslanners]

THE SHRUNK DUNK IS CUTE STOP BEING MEAN TO HIM!!

[dunkleosteus-stan]

Here's a picture I took of a dunkleosteus model in a museum! I forgot which one because I went in 2019

Edit: It's Manchester museum!

[jabidemoria]

Dunkleosteus.

[toadalled]

Dunkleosteus? More like Chunkleosteus!

[soyrwoo]

Compress! That!! Fish!!!

A new paper estimates that Dunkleosteus was much shorter (and chonkier) than in previous estimates.

If you want your own chunky Dunky, this is in my Redubble shop c:

[antiqueanimals]

Life After the Dinosaurs. Written by Mary O'Neill, illustrated by John Bindon, 1989.

[westrnbound]

that one guy from dunkins. or something idk

[ash-arts-a-thing]

[alphynix]

With its armored head and blade-like jaws, the placoderm fish Dunkleosteus terrelli is an iconic Paleozoic animal.

Living during the Late Devonian, about 375-359 million years ago, in subtropical waters covering parts of what are now North America and Europe, this species is known mostly just from the bony plates that covered its head and thorax. The rest of its skeleton was cartilaginous and rarely ever fossilized (only a few vertebrae and the pectoral fin are currently known), so its full body shape and size is poorly understood, and previous length estimates have ranged all the way up to 10m (33').

…Except it turns out it wasn't nearly that big.

Based on its head proportions, along with comparisons to more complete remains of other arthrodire placoderms, recent studies instead come up with a maximum length of about 4m (~13ft) – giving Dunkleosteus a much shorter-but-heavier chunky body shape, more like a tuna than a shark.

But even after this size revision Dunkleosteus would have still been one of the largest animals around at the time, with the ability to snap its jaws open at high speed and an incredibly strong bite force. It was probably specialized to mainly prey on other heavily-armored animals such as other placoderms and shelled cephalopods, and was likely a strong swimmer with a shark-like tail fin.

Preserved stomach contents in one fossil show remains of the fast-swimming cartilaginous fish Orodus – suggesting that much like the modern tuna it resembled, Dunkleosteus was also capable of bursts of high speed.

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[humboldt-squid]

hey sorry we looked at the data on your boyfriend and had to reevaluate our estimation of his size. yeah we measured his orbit-opercular length and everything. i know you thought he was the size of a shortbus but he’s actually most likely between 3.4 and 4.1 meters in length. sorry about that. he’s still pretty big though

[caleod]

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