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1. Slightly disappointingly, the "hell" of "hell fish" just means they were found in Hell Creek

Fri Oct 14, 2022, 05:20 AM

Oct 2022

and the picture used at that link to illustrate it is not the fish concerned (which looked like sturgeon, which that doesn't) - it's a stock photo of a Cretaceous fossil (right period, at least) illegally taken from Brazil:

https://www.gettyimages.co.uk/detail/news-photo/this-combination-of-pictures-created-on-may-24-show-from-news-photo/1240875464

This is the Hell Creek fish:

https://www.livescience.com/3d-sturgeon-fossils-tanis

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