DUNKLEOSTEUS: The Ocean's First Predator

Long before sharks. Long before dinosaurs. Something else ruled the seas. Dunkleosteus terrelli lived approximately 370 million years ago during the Late Devonian period and is considered one of the first true apex predators in vertebrate history. It was six to ten metres long, covered in thick bony armour, and possessed one of the most powerful bites of any animal that has ever lived, all without a single tooth. In this video we cover everything you need to know about Dunkleosteus, what it was, what it looked like, how it hunted, what the ancient world it lived in actually looked like, and what caused the extinction event that wiped it and every other placoderm off the face of the Earth 359 million years ago.