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Leedsichthys problematicus

Artwork by Vitor Silva

This filter-feeding fish from the Jurassic Period was a giant that likely grew larger than today’s whale sharks. Unlike the sharks, Leedsichthys was a bony fish, a group whose largest living member is the ocean sunfish Mola mola.

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This is genuinely very cool but

I absolutely cannot get over that name