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Three fish with one head: Sufi sources from Southeast Asia Southeast Asia Tattoo, Two Fish Drawing, Ancient Asian Art, Fish Symbolism, Tattoo Medieval, Medieval Creatures, Fish Illustrations, Ancient Fish, Ancient Tattoo

This two-part blog post will examine a striking motif of three interlocking fish with one head, which is found in widely varied locations all over the world. This first post looks at examples in Javanese mystical manuscripts; in the second post, the motif will be traced from ancient Egypt through...

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Devonian Period, Paleozoic Era, Ancient Fish, Prehistoric Dinosaurs, Dinosaur Images, Animal Skeletons, Ancient Animals, Paleo Art, Extinct Animals

Dunkleosteus (meaning "Dunkle's bone") was a large placoderm fish that lived in the late Devonian period, about 382–358 million years ago.[1] It has been estimated to have grew to 4.1 metres (12.3 feet), and was the top predator of its time and the Paleozoic era as a whole. Dunkleosteus belongs to the Placodermi, a large, paraphyletic clade of armor-plated fishes likely ancestral to all living gnathostomes. More precisely, it was an arthodire, part of a clade which possessed skulls that had…

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