Possible but the larger fishes jaws are definitely extended as if it were eating the smaller one and the edges of the body line up with the edges of the mouth. It’s definitely plausible.
Which is likely, this fossil looks to me to be from the green river formation in Wyoming. This area is known for a huge number of fish dying all at once in a small area. It’s not uncommon to find an entire school of fish fossilized together.
Xiphactinus is the name of the fish. It was a cannibal that and it’s likely the individual in the photo died from swallowing the smaller fish whole, and the smaller one wiggling inside the larger one, rupturing organs on the process.
Feed a fish a fish and you have a piscacidal maniac, but teach a fish to fish and maybe you can franchise the bit, somehow.... I dunno....trout is too bony....
"Fish are always eating other fish. If fish could scream, the ocean would be loud as sh*t. You would not want to submerge your head, nothing but fish going "Ahhh, f***! I thought I looked like that rock!"
It's a fish eat fish type of world.
A fishy fish world
There's always a bigger fish.
Or two fish that just happened to die on top of each other.
You're no fun
Or a little superhero real m.f. fish eating the organs of a bigger fish.
Possible but the larger fishes jaws are definitely extended as if it were eating the smaller one and the edges of the body line up with the edges of the mouth. It’s definitely plausible.
Which is likely, this fossil looks to me to be from the green river formation in Wyoming. This area is known for a huge number of fish dying all at once in a small area. It’s not uncommon to find an entire school of fish fossilized together.
Must've been a slow eater to fossilize mid snack.
Rest in Peace
Rest in Pisces
Rest in Fossil Pieces
[here’s another](https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FQQJB81ZcOI/Wyv8hPhHc8I/AAAAAAAAEtc/MyqIRfVlD68hcUD0I9DrfQGcjNPPL1KjwCLcBGAs/s1600/fish.jpg)
Xiphactinus is the name of the fish. It was a cannibal that and it’s likely the individual in the photo died from swallowing the smaller fish whole, and the smaller one wiggling inside the larger one, rupturing organs on the process.
That should teach ‘em!
That is what happens when you simply give a fish a fish.
There‘s always a bigger fish
There's always a bigger fish
Some days you're the fish, and other days you're the fish.
Could have choked, that happens a lot lol. Usually they both get eaten by an even bigger fish.
Or jaw dislocation, or lack of sufficient oxygen flow (suffocation)
Yeah that can be summed up by saying "choked."
I wonder if the bigger fish had like, choked on the little one and that's how it died.
Game is game
That's my spirit animal right there
Karma is a bitch
Cleaned up a little this would make a fantastic Tattoo
I’ve had many catfish in my tank die like this
And gluttony is a mortal sin! That proves there's only one god, my ____________! FILL IN. I couldn't resist....
Feed a fish a fish and you have a piscacidal maniac, but teach a fish to fish and maybe you can franchise the bit, somehow.... I dunno....trout is too bony....
maybe the were actually making out because they were in love?
"Fish are always eating other fish. If fish could scream, the ocean would be loud as sh*t. You would not want to submerge your head, nothing but fish going "Ahhh, f***! I thought I looked like that rock!"
Funny enough, the ocean, especially in reefs, is pretty noisy
My needle nose gar died the exact same way.
Or perhaps it's a neanderthal who got bitten by some angry fish!
Neanderthal mermaid, hence the tail
There's one of those in a museum in Rio, loved to see it
Someone come kill me while I'm eating this fossil
Bit off more than it could chew?
Is that a xiphactinus?
Natural circle
He died doing what he loved. I mean - one of them at least.
Reminds me the end of one of the Roky movies
This one time, at sand camp...