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An extinct genus of ray-finned fish that lived during the Jurassic period seems to have had quite the penchant for overreaching.

A new analysis of fossilized Tharsis fish reveals that the carnivorous marine animals seem to have frequently met their end with large cephalopods known as belemnites lodged quite fatally in their gullets.

According to paleontologists Martin Ebert and Martina Kölbl-Ebert of Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Germany, Tharsis fish found in the 152 million-year-old Solnhofen Plattenkalk (limestone) formation in Germany appear in multiple instances to have died while attempting to swallow a belemnite nearly as long as themselves.

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[–] Fingolfinz@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

They were on a warpath to nonexistence

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 weeks ago

Meanwhile Eel plays Even Bigger Mouth, it is critically effective!