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ichthyosaur
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How a teenager helped identify a new species of giant marine reptile
Artist’s impression of a washed-up Ichthyotitan severnensis carcass on the beach. Sergey Krasovskiy, CC BY-SA Dean Lomax, University of Manchester…
The World’s First Swimming “Superpredator”
Ichthyosaurs were a diverse group of marine reptiles that coexisted with dinosaurs and pterosaurs during the Mesozoic era,…
Evolution of Swimming Styles in Mesozoic Marine Reptiles Discovered in Innovative Study
Researchers from the University of Bristol have used state-of-the-art statistical methods to study the locomotion of Mesozoic marine…
How Reptiles Dominated the Jurassic Seas
Had you been swimming out in the open seas during the Jurassic period, you might spot something that…
UK Scientists Dig Up One of Its Biggest Ichthyosaurs Yet
It hasn’t been that long since we last heard of ichthyosaurs in online science discourse; just a few…
Ancient Montana Was Plagued By a Massive Marine Reptile—And It Probably Looked Like a Dolphin
Ask anyone to picture what an “underwater reptile” looks like and they’d be likely to bring up images…