Mastodawn

This is quite the salmon! 'O. rastrosus fossils have been found along the US west coast and Japan. It swam the North Pacific during the late Miocene (23–5.3 million years ago) and early Pliocene (5.3–2.6 million years ago).' https://cosmosmagazine.com/history/palaeontology/largest-salmon-tusk-teeth/ #foodhistory #salmonids

Largest ever salmon had tusks, not sabres

Reanalysis of the largest salmon, which lived several million years ago, shows that it sported tusk-like teeth which might have been used for fighting.

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