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 ...