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.

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.

This isn't your grandpa's fishing tale -- this whopper is real. OK, the fish, known as a Xiphactinus, may have been dead for about 88 million years, so it didn't put up much of a fight. And it can't ...

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 ...

The oceans of the Cretaceous of North America teemed with life. Gigantic fish and enormous marine reptiles hunted the Western Interior Sea. A unique new fossil demonstrates rare evidence of direct ...

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 ...

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 ...