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The creatures cruised the world’s oceans with features we often associate with marine mammals, such as coats of blubber and ...
And back in 2020, when she was 11 years old, Ruby came across the fossil of an ichthyosaur that experts now believe could be the largest marine reptile of all time. Researchers who studied the ...
"Twins! She has another baby," Judith Pardo-Pérez, a paleontologist at the University of Magallanes in Chile who first ...
Pérez unearthed the fossilized remains of an ichthyosaur — a dolphin-like marine creature that ruled the Mesozoic seas.
A landowner in Argentina discovered the fossilized remains of a prehistoric marine reptile, identified as an ichthyosaur, in the province of Neuquén.
Fiona’s fossil shows rare preservation of a pregnant ichthyosaur, revealing life, death, ancient disasters, and scientific ...
According to members of the Argentine National Gendarmerie, a local paleontologist confirmed the fossil was that of an Ichthyosaur – a prehistoric marine animal. True to their name, which means ...
Scientists classify pregnant ichthyosaur fossil 'Fiona' found in Chilean Patagonia. (photo credit: Archive of the Natural Museum of Rio Seco) A study, published in the Journal of Vertebrate ...
About 131 million years ago, an 11-foot-long ichthyosaur slammed snout first into the seafloor and was rapidly buried by ...
Findings published today in the journal Current Biology examine a rich fossil bed in the renowned Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park in Nevada’s Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, where many ...