Dunkleosteus
Dunkleosteus
A portion of a Dunkleosteus terrelli skull, an extinct fish, lived during the late Devonian, approximately 382 – 358 million years ago. They possessed one of the highest bite forces among any animal. The exact body dimensions remain unknown but estimates suggest that the largest known specimen could have been between 13 to 33 feet long and weighed around 1.1 - 4.4 tons. Their fossils are identifiable from the remains of their armor; a complex puzzle made of interlocking pieces that protected the animal from other predators. With this armor and bite force, it was a near unstoppable apex predator. This artifact is a fragment of a 358-million-year-old skull recovered from the Famennian strata in Morocco.