Dunkleosteus.[]
How would Dunkleosteus look like in Animal Jam
The Dunkleosteus (Dunk-lee-os-tea-us) is an extinct type of bony fish, it lived during the Devonian, over 300 million years ago. It is a Members-only animal available for purchase on the Ocean Diamond Shop for 10 diamonds, It is slightly bigger than the shark. It is blue colored (Color 1) with a lighter underbelly (Color 2), it has dark spots in its back, orange eyes and large teeth which are gray colored. Before its addition to the game it was featured on other videogames such as the Hungry Shark Series, Jurassic World: The Game, Jurassic Park Builder, Depth, Mezosoica, Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Ark: Survival Evolved.
Dunkleosteus concept art
Actions.[]
Dance: The Dunkleosteus will dance around as if its playing a guitar in the air, headbanging as it does.
Play: The Dunkleosteus snaps at the screen, then swims upwards, then dives down.
Swirl: The Dunkleosteus just T-Poses and spins around like the rotating rat meme, slowly picking up speed then slowing down again while making a whirlpool.
Pose: The Dunkleosteus poses as The Thinker[1], a famous sculpture.
Trivia.[]
- The Dunkleosteus is Ohio's State Fish Fossil.
- It belonged to a class of extinct bony fish called "Placoderms" (Plate-skinned), who were among the first jawed fish to appear on the fossil record.
- They are known to have cannibalized each other.
- The Dunkleosteus was the apex predator of it's time.
- Their name means "Dunkle's bone".
- It DID NOT have a rivalry with Megalodon, as 300 million years separate the two animals geologically.
- Recently Dunkleosteus has been downsized from a length of 8 meters (26 feet) to just 4 meters (13 feet).