#xiphactinus

This is warm up art, i havent drawn in a month (wtf) so this looks insane sorry

Xiphactinus at the Tellus Museum.

Originally discovered in Kansas, which was once an inland sea that spanned North America, Xiphactinus was a long, ray-finned fish that was built for speed and living like today's tuna or tarpon, even greatly resembling the latter, which have been clocked at over 30 miles an hour. Having a generalist diet, feeding on anything it could fit in its enormous maw, occasionally swallowing and choking on fish almost its own length, around 20 feet in length. They had a very successful lifestyle with fossils being found globally, terrorizing both the coast and the open ocean; they survived right up until the KT extinction event.

There's always a bigger fish

What's inside the fish? Well it's more fish, unfortunately.

Also known as the X-fish or the Bulldog fish, Xiphactinus swam the Western Interior Seaway during the Late Cretaceous, and  was probably one of the most terrifying fish to ever exist. Not only did it grow up to 20 feet long, it turns out to have an attitude as ugly as it's face; specimens have been found having choked to death on fish way too large for their gullets, and it's likely that their own kind would have been on the menu as well.

Life of our Prehistoric Planet: X-fish (Xiphactinus audax).