A 150-million-year-old fossil fish, newly named Piranhamesodon pinnatomus, which loosely translates to "piranha-like fin-cutter." Credit: M. Ebert, Jura Museum For hundreds of millions of years, ...

Piranha-like creatures capable of biting chunks of flesh from their victims appeared some 150 million years ago, according to new research. Introducing Piranhamesodon pinnatomus—the oldest known flesh ...

This is one fish that definitely belonged in Jurassic mark – bite mark, that is. A 150-million-year old Piranha-like fish has been discovered, capable of ripping the flesh off the bones of its prey, ...

From red to white to orange to blue, fish flesh can land almost anywhere on the color spectrum. What's behind this huge variation? A lot of things — from genetics to bile pigments. And parsing the ...

An ancient flesh-eating fish that was remarkably similar to modern day piranhas has been discovered. Piranhamesodon pinnatomus lived around 150 million years ago—alongside the dinosaurs—and it ...

Researchers have described a remarkable new species of fish that lived in the sea about 150 million years ago in the time of the dinosaurs. The new species of bony fish had teeth like a piranha, which ...