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Dunkleosteus terrelli was ferocious, the apex predator of the warm, shallow sea that covered much of the Earth during the Devonian period 360 million years ago.

While the sharklike fish likely lived around the world, conditions in Cleveland preserved a windfall of skeletal remains, now buried in black shale rock exposed by rivers and road construction projects around Northeast Ohio. The animal is even named after a Clevelander: David Dunkle, a former curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.

If you grew up in Cleveland, you likely learned about the massive monster on field trips. But it turns out it’s even rarer than originally

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