Jake Buehler
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Huge-Jawed ‘Terminator Pigs’ Unfairly Painted as Predators, Researchers Say
About 20 to 40 million years ago, entelodonts — immense, snaggletoothed, pig-like beasts — trotted throughout Eurasia and North America. But despite their 0.91 m jaws studded with an alarming number of triangular teeth, these barnyard nightmares apparently had a typically porcine diet.
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How Transparent, ‘Vampire’ Catfish May Travel Unseen Through the Amazon River
The Amazon River basin’s most notorious bloodsuckers may not be all drama and gore after all. New findings suggest that some candiru — the vampire fish — may have a more benign relationship with their host fishes, using the hosts’ bodies as transportation or protection from predators.
