Earliest Flesh-Ripping Fish Found (With Nibbled Victims)

Jumping right out of nightmares and into my heart (it's kind of cute, isn't it?), meet Fincutter, the Bavarian Piranha. Less than three inches long, the Late Jurassic fossil is the earliest ray-finned fish with flesh-ripping teeth — and paleontologists say it was preserved alongside some of its prey.
Piranhamesodon pinnatomus ("pinnatomus" = fincutter) turned up in the same fabulously fossiliferous Bavarian quarry that has given us specimens of Archaeopteryx and other key Jurassic ani