Fossil Friday: largest ichthyosaur tooth found in the heights of the Swiss Alps
It's safe to say that mountaintops are not the usual place where you'd find marine fossils.
Tag: ichthyosaur
Ichthyosaur may have had blubber, which means the ‘sea monster’ may have been warm-blooded
Blubber is extremely rare among reptiles.
Ichthyosaur jaw-bone might have belonged to largest animal ever
The fossil found on a UK beach used to belong to an ancient behemoth.
Impressive 170-million-year old “sea monster” fossil found in Scotland
It took two generations to bring this fossil to light.
Oldest ‘fish-lizard’ bridges Ichthyosaur evolutionary gap
One of the most long-lived and fiercest marine predator in history was the ichthyosaur, and a recent fossil find from ...
‘Kraken’ ancient lair shows signs of a vicious predator
[caption id="attachment_9177" align="alignnone" width="499" caption="The arranged vertebrae of a fossilized ichthyosaur resemble the pattern of suckers on a cephalopod's tentacle, ...