SABERTOOTH SALMON

When digging through the fossil history of Pacific Salmon I was astonished to find out that there was once a member of the Oncorhynchus genus that grew to about 8 feet in length, sported huge fangs, and weighed about 300 pounds. I’m not making this up. Oncorhynchus rastrosus was one enormous anadromous fish and was the sister species of today’s Sockeye Salmon. It ranged up and down the west coast and lived during the Miocene about 5 million years ago.