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"Following the extinction of Otodus Megalodon millions of years ago, an ecological niche was left open for the predation of large marine mammals such as cetaceans. In most of the world-ocean this niche was filled by animals such as Orcas. But off the coast of South America evolved the Mega-Catfish, Megafelichthys Brasiliensis, closely related to the Piraiba. While faster and more agile than the Megalodon, the Mega-Catfish lacks the large, specialised teeth of it’s ecological predecessor. Instead, the Mega-Catfish kills either by ramming, in the case of large whales, or simply by swallowing prey whole, in the case of pinnipeds and other small mammals."

The first of my three submissions for AVNJ's fourth invent-a-fish contest.

Description
"Following the extinction of Otodus Megalodon millions of years ago, an ecological niche was left open for the predation of large marine mammals such as cetaceans. In most of the world-ocean this niche was filled by animals such as Orcas. But off the coast of South America evolved the Mega-Catfish, Megafelichthys Brasiliensis, closely related to the Piraiba. While faster and more agile than the Megalodon, the Mega-Catfish lacks the large, specialised teeth of it’s ecological predecessor. Instead, the Mega-Catfish kills either by ramming, in the case of large whales, or simply by swallowing prey whole, in the case of pinnipeds and other small mammals."

The first of my three submissions for AVNJ's fourth invent-a-fish contest.