‘Terrifying’ prehistoric fish found in Makhanda: Description of new species was a 37-year-long labour of love for Eastern Cape palaeontologist
began to unearth fossils, including unusual fossilised scales from a giant fish, entombed in the fossil-rich, fine-grained shale rock.
Years of painstaking excavations and “detective work” would follow as the palaeontologist sought to unravel the identity of the ancient and massive fish species whose silvery-white fossilised remains were preserved atNow, more than 30 years later, Gess, together with Swedish palaeontologist Per Ahlberg, has. It is the biggest prehistoric bony fish ever to be discovered in southern Africa.
Udlezinye means “one who consumes others” in IsiXhosa. And that’s exactly what the giant killer fish did 360 million years ago, as it prowled the ancient freshwater estuary section of Waterloo Farm, devouring distant ancestors of humans and all four-legged animals — the aquatic tetrapods,
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