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Three views of Oda, a 240 million-year-old ichthyosaur found in Svalbard, including, from left, a photograph, a radiograph and a computed tomography scan. Engelschiøn et al. PLOS ONE ...
Ruby and her father would later discover that they'd just chanced upon part of the largest marine reptile ever found — a giant ichthyosaur from 202 million years ago, near the end of the ...
About 131 million years ago, an 11-foot-long ichthyosaur slammed snout first into the seafloor and was rapidly buried by sediments—a sequence of events that helped preserve not only her skeleton ...
Scientists say a teenager and her father discovered fossilized pieces of a jawbone that belonged to an ancient marine reptile — perhaps the largest ichthyosaur ever found.
Life Ancient marine reptile found on UK beach may be the largest ever The jawbone of an ichthyosaur uncovered in south-west England has been identified as a new species, and researchers estimate ...
Now, digging on a beach in Somerset, UK, a team of British paleontologists found the remains of an ichthyosaur, a marine reptile that could give the whales some competition.
A jawbone found in Somerset, England, may belong to the largest marine reptile yet known, a huge ichthyosaur that lived about 200 million years ago.