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Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Publication Date: April 24, 2024 - 17:05

Giant prehistoric salmon had tusk-like spikes used for defence, building nests: study

April 24, 2024
A new paper says a giant salmon that lived five million years ago in the coastal waters of the Pacific Northwest used tusk-like spikes as defence mechanisms and for building nests to spawn.The initial fossil discoveries of the 2.7-metre-long salmon in Oregon in the 1970s were incomplete and led researchers to suggest the fish had fang-like teeth.


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