The big fish that went away ...(Ancient Times)(Brief Article)

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Deep-sea anglers, sit back in your deck chairs, close your eyes, and imagine fighting to land one of the monstrous fish that cruised the seas off South Carolina about 26 million years ago. Fossils found near Charleston suggest that adult members of Xiphiorhynchus rotundus, an extinct species of billfish...

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