I had a chance to visit the Tellus Museum in Georgia this weekend with my oldest son for cub scouts. There were a number of very interesting fossil displays. Including on named “The Terrible Fish”, pictured here:
It’s hard to get a perspective of how big this thing is, so I took a short video:
Next, I saw the jaw of a Megalodon:
For perspective, I am 6 feet tall, and could have walked through the mouth without needing to duck my head. Simply massive.
And then there is the thing nightmares are made of…
The Xiphanctinus:
This thing looks truly terrifying in person. The tag for this guy says that some fossils of Xiphanctinus are found with intact, large fish in it’s stomach. I took a video of him and his display mate, the super turtle Protostega:
