An artist’s rendering of a complete female spike-toothed salmon with an accurate tooth configuration. (Ray Troll/PLOS One via Courthouse News) (CN) — At 8.9 feet long, Oncorhynchus rastrosus was the ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – New research, with help from the University of Oregon, has found that the largest salmon to ever live about five million years ago had fangs. According to the researchers, the ...

A massive prehistoric salmon had tusk-like teeth that protruded from either side of its snout, a new study finds. Scientists have long been intrigued by O. rastrosus‘s exceptional teeth, a physical ...

Around five million years ago, the rivers of North America were home to an enormous salmon that would make today’s largest specimens look like minnows. It may have grown up to 8.9 feet (2.7 meters) ...

†Oncorhynchus rastrosus. (A) CT model of Holotype, UO F-26799, skull in right lateral view with a stylized drawing of the originally proposed “sabertoothed” position of the isolated premaxilla; (B) UO ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — If you look at pictures of salmon from the prehistoric era, you'll often see them with protruding teeth that pointed downward. But now, research shows that wasn't true. "The previous ...