Nebraska’s Hastings Museum recently commissioned Staab Studios to build a model of a bony prehistoric predator from the genus Xiphactinus. Staab helpfully recorded their progress sculpting this beast ...

Xiphactinus was one of the largest bony fish of the Late Cretaceous and is considered one of the fiercest creatures in the sea. A powerful tail and winglike pectoral fins shot the 17-foot-long ...

Fossil hunter Alan Detrich hopes to put a sea monster in the Statehouse. For Kansas' 150th birthday in January 2011, Detrich is willing to donate to the state a fossil of either a Xiphactinus or a ...

Topeka? A noted fossil hunter is looking for someone to buy and display the remains of a 17-foot-long prehistoric fish that he unearthed — likely 88 million years after it died — in western Kansas.

Some 70 million years, give or take, after its body settled into the muddy bottom of the Western Interior Seaway that we now know as the Mancos shale, the jaws of a 15-foot xiphactinus are on display ...

Topeka? About 80 million years ago, the Pteranodon longiceps flying reptile would not have been powerful enough to swoop down and successfully nab the big Xiphactinus audax fish. In a bid to be ...

A reconstruction of Xiphactinus at the Museum of Ancient Life in Utah. Brian Switek is a freelance science writer and a paleontology volunteer with the Natural History Museum of Utah. He is also ...

The new season also features fish—namely Xiphactinus, a rather terrifying ocean dweller. Looking every bit like someone gave a grouper a set of fake vampire teeth, Xiphactinus may have grown up to 20 ...

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