Sentences with phrase «giant ichthyosaur»
The researchers believe these bones, which were thought to be the limbs of land - dwelling dinosaurs, may be other giant ichthyosaur jawbone fragments, but it's hard to know for sure until a more complete skeleton turns up.
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Lomax and Massare identified the specimen as an incomplete bone (called a surangular) from the lower jaw of a giant ichthyosaur.
The bone belongs to a giant ichthyosaur, a type of prehistoric aquatic reptile, and experts estimate the length of this specimen's body would have been up to 26 metres.
This new jawbone changes our picture of ichthyosaurs dramatically — not only does it beat out the largest - known shastasaurid, the 69 - foot Shonisaurus sikanniensis, it may reveal that mysterious bones discovered in other parts of the UK are also from giant ichthyosaurs:
We argue here that the Aust bones, previously identified as those of dinosaurs or large terrestrial archosaurs, are jaw fragments from giant ichthyosaurs.»
Not exact matches
They found similarities between the new specimen and S. sikanniensis which suggest the Lilstock specimen belongs to a giant shastasaurid - like ichthyosaur.
All in all, we're glad ichthyosaurs ended up drawing the short evolutionary straw — we ended up with peaceful, lovable blue whales rather than murderous giant dolphins.