Reconstruction of the earliest ichthyosaur and the 250-million-year-old ecosystem found on Spitsbergen. Credit: Illustration by Esther van Hulsen For nearly 190 years, scientists have searched…
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Adult and young of the ichthyosaur species Shonisaurus popularis chase ammonoid prey 230 million years ago, in what is now Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park, Nevada, U.S.A.…
200 million-year-old deposits of the precursor of the Mediterranean Sea have been preserved in the Swiss High Alps. Whale-sized ichthyosaurs came from the open sea…
Ichthyosaur ill. Credit: Esther van Hulsen A new study published in PeerJ uses modern methods to understand the preservation of unique ichthyosaur fossils. One complete…
The sculpture created by the researchers. Credit: Johan Joelsson Geologists at Lund University in Sweden have mapped 300 years of research on the prehistoric marine…
The skull of the first giant creature to ever inhabit the Earth, the ichthyosaur “Cymbospondylus youngorum” currently on display at the Natural History Museum of…