0000-0002-8715-2896 Ichthyosaurs, meaning ‘fish lizards’, are a bizarre group of ancient marine reptiles that went extinct around 90 million years ago. They looked suspiciously similar to dolphins, but are only very, very distantly related toCategory Archives: Marine Reptiles
Life after death: Largest discovered Ichthyosaurus preserves a fossilised embryo
0000-0002-8715-2896 Ichthyosaurs, meaning ‘fish lizards’, are a bizarre group of ancient marine reptiles that went extinct around 90 million years ago. They looked suspiciously similar to dolphins, but are only very, very distantly related toPosted by in Embryo, featured, Ichthyosaurs, Ichthyosaurus, Marine Reptiles
Newly discovered pliosaur terrorised ancient Russian seas
The Mesozoic played host to some of the most dangerous predators to ever swim the Earth’s oceans. Among these, pliosaurs were lethal hunters, and some of the largest predators ever on this planet. They were thePosted by in cretaceous, diversity, Early Cretaceous, ecology, featured, Hypercarnivory, Jurassic, Macrophagy, Marine Reptiles, Plesiosaurs, Pliosaurs, Russia, Sauropterygia
Happy Fins: Plesiosaurs Flapped like Penguins
One of the most infuriating things about being a paleontologist is being able to study some of the coolest organisms that have ever inhabited the Earth, yet never being able to see one in life.