food chain

It's a Fish-Eat-Giant Salamander-Eat-Shark World

zooillogix | November 12, 2007

Reported last month in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, a fascinating fossil was discovered in the Saar-Nahe Basin of Southwestern Germany (sounds more like somewhere in Middle-earth than Bavaria to us, but go figure). The fossil(s?) comprises a fish that was eaten by an amphibian which was eaten by a shark. It is being described as the oldest snapshot of the vertebrate food chain and represents, if nothing else, some good eatin'. In case you couldn't visualize it, this last graphic is an EXACT snapshot of what this prehistoric brunch orgy looked like... The shark lived in…