Xiphactinus was one of the largest bony fish of the Late Cretaceous and is considered one of the fiercest creatures in the sea. A powerful tail and winglike pectoral fins shot the 17-foot-long ...

Nebraska’s Hastings Museum recently commissioned Staab Studios to build a model of a bony prehistoric predator from the genus Xiphactinus. Staab helpfully recorded their progress sculpting this beast ...

Some 70 million years, give or take, after its body settled into the muddy bottom of the Western Interior Seaway that we now know as the Mancos shale, the jaws of a 15-foot xiphactinus are on display ...

Topeka? A noted fossil hunter is looking for someone to buy and display the remains of a 17-foot-long prehistoric fish that he unearthed — likely 88 million years after it died — in western Kansas.

Fossil hunter Alan Detrich hopes to put a sea monster in the Statehouse. For Kansas' 150th birthday in January 2011, Detrich is willing to donate to the state a fossil of either a Xiphactinus or a ...

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