Have you ever had a bad neighbor? The kind that blasts heavy metal at 3AM, “exercises” their dog on your lawn, and is just an all-around jerk? Well, bad as they were, chances are that you didn’t have to worry about them eating you (unless they were into some REALLY weird stuff). Our ancient, 375 million year old cousin Tiktaalik Tiktaalik wasn’t as lucky. In a paper just published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, Jason Downs and colleagues have named a new species of big, wide-mouthed predatory fish which shared the same habitat as the famous “fishapod.”

The discovery of the imposing fish species is part of a long-running project to mine