The Saber-Toothed Salmon never existed?

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[TheAngryBare]

False alarm, everyone! It's actually much cooler than we thought!

[Mikailodon]

People may miss the "saber-toothed salmon", but right now I’m just having fun calling this the "woolly salmmoth" for its tusks. It’s just perfect.

[eeveedude]

I propose we call it the mustache toothed salmon

[germanomagnone]

instead of being a "vampire" salmon, he was a pierced salmon!

[krlosz]

Thats actually far more interesting looking than the saber tooth model

[snowfox]

I bet that was the best tasting salmon that ever existed.

[germanomagnone]

this story of the "saber-toothed salmon" reminds me of what happened with the Atopodentatus unicus, it was thought that they had an "alien" snout with a filtering structure like flamingos or whales.

[kR-qjrw]

things would have been named a tusked salmon from the start and call it a day tbh

[Thao-nathos]

God imagine how much sushi one cpuld have made out from one of these guys

[GandalfTheTsaagan]

Maybe they used them for in-fighting? It's an interesteresting possition to have those teeth in.

[samjam]

I have killed so many of these things in ark survival evolved. I’ve probably caused another extinction level event like it’s in the trillions especially with creatures that have attacked damages so high it probably would’ve caused the universe universe to-collapse in itself

[brummmntum]

imagine seeing one of them rotting alive while spawning as modern salmon do

[melhawk]

Huge fish! Could you imagine the filets on that sucker? Would be either tough and nasty, or the wagyu of the sea!

[mann_man]

Reminds me of old depictions of cavemen with bones a nose rings

[genericcatgirl]

The dunkleosteous shrunk so the salmon could have a cool septum piecing

[scourgeface]

i was not prepared for an absolute unit of a salmon

[search]

European modern salmon can reach to 1m long and above. Fishers in my town in Spain used to catch such beasts in the river, before three dams were built, and other factors also payed a role. Now salmons that migrate to this region are rarely seen that size and the species is actually endangered to a degree.

[kenbattor]

You destroyed my whole childhood with this revelation.

[ian.r]

Before this new finding, i see some artists already depicting O. rastrosus having "fangs" that projected out sideway

[jrodnd]

You just couldn't let us have fun, could you