After receiving questions from a student participating in our Schools for Salmon program, we asked paleontology expert, Edward Davis, from the University of Oregon's Museum of Natural History to help us learn more about a prehistoric giant salmon!

Click the logo to visit the museum’s spike-toothed salmon webpage! (previously known as sabertooth salmon!)

Photo of Paleobiologist Edward Davis and spike-toothed salmon fossilized skull: Museum of Natural and Cultural History, University of Oregon

Photo of Paleobiologist Edward Davis and spike-toothed salmon fossilized skull: Museum of Natural and Cultural History, University of Oregon

Go deep! MNCH paleobiologist Edward Davis shares recent discoveries about Oregon's ancient giant salmon fossil