Instead of writing tips comparing the in-game creature to the real life animal and begging the devs to unbalance the in-game creature to make it more realistically resemble the real life animal, here's an actual helpful tip to tame the dunkleosteus:

Recommended items: scuba tank, compound bow, crossbows in case one breaks, couple stacks of tranq arrows, compound bow, 25 metal arrows

Recommended level: level 81 (this is just the level where the scuba tank engram unlocks since every tip just says to tranq the dunkleosteus but never how long it takes before you risk drowning)

1. Get an ichthy, a scuba tank, and at least 200 tranq arrows if you're knocking out a 150 since this thing has armor all over its body so it takes 60% less damage from ranged attacks

2. Find a dunkleosteus and using the compound bow kill all aggressives in the area minus the dunkleosteus

3. Using the crossbow shoot the dunkleosteus while facing away from the edge of the map, this should make the dunkleosteus start fleeing away from you and towards the terrain which if you're lucky enough this will force the dunkleosteus to start swimming to the surface.

4. If somehow your dunkleosteus manages to swim all the way to the surface while attempting to flee from you (this seems to happen with higher level dunkles) keep tranqing it while staying behind it as since it is in shallow water it will stop moving.

5. After a long time your dunkleosteus will finally be knocked out and you can use raw meat to tame if you're on singleplayer and it won't wake up before its tamed or if you're on multiplayer using raw meat will take too long and it will wake up so you have to use raw prime meat.

6. You now have a tamed dunkleosteus that hits like a truck, can harvest rocks that are underwater (pretty much only oily rocks as regular rocks only spawn underwater in certain places like herbivore island), and has really bad stamina so you will run out of stamina trying to swim between oily rocks plus its slower than a megalodon.

Farms double the metal of an Anky. Massive weight reduction and huuuge weight increases per level. Mine rock 7k weight. Lets get this out to people who worry about farming in the mineral rich oceans! Hit them likes

Dunkleosteus (meaning “Dunkle’s Bone”) in real life had the fastest bite of ANY animal in history, able open AND close its mouth in 1/50 OF A SECOND!! This causes water to be pulled in so quickly, it’s mouth then acted as a split-second vacuum, instantly pulling its prey into its mouth.

Oh, and it ate sharks during its time (late Devonian Period) since sharks weren’t as apex or as developed (looking more like eels, ie. the Cladasolache).

Very easy to tame if you know what your doing. First tame an Ichthyosaur. Then grab a crossbow and some tranq arrows and find one and knock it out. It is not be able to attack if you are on the Ichthy. As you are taming it, be sure to remain on the Ichthy unless feeding narcs, so other creature don’t hurt you.

If you tranq them from the right angle you can get them to start swimming into the ground which will force them up resulting in them swimming to the surface. You can then build walls or structures around it so it doesn't escape then sit back like you are tranqing a giga until it falls unconscious.

Very easy to tame if you know what "your" doing. First tame an Ichthyosaur. Then grab a crossbow and some tranq arrows and find one and knock it out. I'm not going to explain how to efficiently without you drowning but just knock it out. It is not be able to attack if you are on the Ichthy. As you are taming it, be sure to remain on the Ichthy unless feeding narcs, so other creature don't hurt you, and be at the dunkleosteus' side at all times as you definitely won't drown eventually.

On THE ISLAND IN ASE the only thing this is useful for is harvesting oil since the only places where metal, obsidian and crystal spawn are in underwater caves and your dunkleosteus can't go in there to harvest them or else it goes above water and dies.

Also if you are clever yes there are some rocks that spawn underwater but they are located near shores so you can use your dunkleosteus to harvest those but there are only a few places where this happens like in the northern shores and at herbivore island.

Remember that this only applies to the dunkleosteus on the map the island and on the game version ase so on other maps dunkles may be more useful and on asa more rocks do spawn underwater.

If you are playing on ark ultimate mobile edition then there are only oily rocks in the ocean as that is ase.

If you are off your mount and you swim close enough to one of these they will get aggressive and attack you, they do have an aggro range but it is very small.

fun fact: did you know the dunkleosteus doesn’t actually have teeth? it’s teeth were the armoured, protective plates on its face. 🔝if you didn’t know

Probably the most underrated Dino in the game! They can actually harvest a massive amount of metal, crystal, stone, flint, and obsidian. In Ragnorok there is a ravine by the volcano in the highlands underwater, One run in this ravine will give u 10,000 metal ingots and well over 10,000 obsidian from the same dark gray rock.

The guy who corrected the guy who was talking about the fast bite didn’t have to be so mean. He wasn’t being ignorant he just didn’t know.

This tame has the worst stamina ever, if you sprint with it you will be winded in less than 10 seconds.

For all Mobile players

There is no metal or obsidian or crystals underwater

Just oil

Steelslaughter here,

I’ve made the comment on this having the fastest bite of all time, and I thank you for correcting me with this information. I actually never heard about this ant, so major thanks for this break in the case. And sorry about what I said before with this creature.

These are one of the few dinos that take less damage/topour from head shots. Aim for the body.

A Dunkle Fish is really good for harvesting oil from the underwater nodes, along with a bit of stone. They also are useful fighters, with moderate melee and high health, though very low speed

When it says 1.7% chance of death. It means it's going to die.

Just lv up movement speed and this will be your oil friend forever

Taming a dunklosteous is not too hard if you do this.

1. Get lazurous chowder or scuba gear

2. Have kibble or prime meat ready

3. Have at least 2 good crossbows. Kill some alpha raptors to get some.

4. Use a mount. I recommend a Sarcosichus or a Baryonyx. Make sure you can fire off of its back.

5. Find one. They typically spawn near the edge of the map on The Island.

6. Clear out any hostile creatures that are too close. They will interfere with your tame.

7. Shoot it full of tranqs. This may take a while. They are slow, so simply kite them while riding your mount.

8. Once they are knocked out, put kibble and/or prime meat in their inventory. They may need narcotics depending on the level. Make sure to protect them.

9. You now have a Dunklosteous! I suggest bringing a cryopod because they are very slow swimmers.

Hope this helps, good luck! :)

Can ONLY gather oil on mobile and DOES NOT have any weight reduction 🥲