A reconstruction of adult and newly born Triassic ichthyosaurs Shonisaurus Gabriel Ugueto. No one knew why so many immense reptiles were bunched together. In the middle of the Nevada desert, in ...

Shonisaurus, a giant ichthyosaur is pictured in this handout reconstruction image obtained by Reuters, April 9, 2018. Nobumichi Tamura/Handout via Reuters.

3D-model image of Shonisaurus ichthyosaur fossil bed from above in Quarry 2, Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park, Nevada. (IMAGE) Smithsonian ...

Artist’s life reconstruction of adult and newly born Triassic ichthyosaurs Shonisaurus, 2022. (IMAGE) Smithsonian ...

Known as Shonisaurus popularis, the species resembled a chunky dolphin that grew to at least 15.2 meters long and died in large numbers at one particular site some 230 million years ago.

Shonisaurus life and skeletal reconstruction. Fossil collector Paul de la Salle, affiliated with the Etches Collection in Dorset, England, found the ichthyosaur bone in 2016 at Lilstock on England ...

An illustration shows what Shonisaurus popularis might have looked like in the late Triassic. Dmitry Bogdanov, CC BY 3.0 Nestled near an abandoned mining town in the heart of Nevada, Berlin ...

Dozens of Shonisaurus fossils can be found in a 230-million-year-old bonebed inside a rock layer called the Luning Formation in central Nevada. Few fossils of other large animals are found there ...

Elizabeth Nicholls, who died in 2004, spent years digging up a 75-foot-long ichthyosaur, a filter-feeding reptile with a head resembling that of a bottlenose dolphin.

A 250-million-year-old jaw bone found in the UK was from a sea beast 26 metres long. Experts say the ichthyosaur, was as big as blue whales, the largest animals ever. Dean Lomax of Manchester Unive… ...