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.
Not exact matches
Doyle says the shells couldn't have come out the other
end of the
ichthyosaur because they would have damaged its internal organs.
At the start of the Jurassic the
ichthyosaurs were joined by the plesiosaurs and pliosaurs, which thrived right through until the
end of the Cretaceous some 65 million years ago.