Sentences with phrase «ichthyosaurs in»

The marine reptiles persisted, including the ichthyosaurs in the in the Lower and Middle of the Cretaceous, the plesiosaurs throughout the Cretaceous, and the mosasaurs that dominated the Upper Cretaceous.

«Whilst doing my dissertation in 2016, I studied several ichthyosaurs in the collections, including a very small skeleton.

Lomax and Massare also teamed up with former undergraduate student Rashmi Mistry (University of Reading), who had been studying an unusual ichthyosaur in the collections of the Cole Museum of Zoology, University of Reading, for her undergraduate dissertation.

Mary Anning and her brother Joseph found the complete skeleton of a Jurassic - era ichthyosaur in 1812; the creature (which was thought to resemble a crocodile) didn't receive its current scientific name until 1817.

Not exact matches

The weird creatures in the depths of the oceans, the ichthyosaurs, pterosaurs and other extinct species, the enormous varieties of plants, insects, crustaceans, reptiles, fish and mammals — all of this makes us wonder whether chance might not be as good an «explanation» as any for the morphological richness of life.

They compared it with several ichthyosaurs and visited the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Alberta, Canada, and examined the largest ichthyosaur known, the shastasaurid Shonisaurus sikanniensis, which is 21 m long.

Paul said «Initially, the bone just looked like a piece of rock but, after recognising a groove and bone structure, I thought it might be part of a jaw from an ichthyosaur and immediately contacted ichthyosaur experts Dean Lomax (University of Manchester) and Prof. Judy Massare (SUNY College at Brockport, NY, USA) who expressed interest in studying the specimen.

So the new find suggests a shift in the menu for young ichthyosaurs at some point in their evolutionary history, the researchers write October 3 in Historical Biology.

Now, the authors of the present study report what they believe to be the first Jurassic ichthyosaur found in India, from the Kachchh area in Gujarat.

A new near - complete fossilized skeleton is thought to represent the first Jurassic ichthyosaur found in India, according to a study published October 25, 2017 in the open - access journal PLOS ONE by Guntupalli Prasad from the University of Delhi, India, and colleagues.

«First Jurassic ichthyosaur fossil found in India: The fish - like reptile was over five - meter long, likely ate ammonites and other crunchy prey.»

Brusatte and colleagues know that the fossil belonged to an ichthyosaur, a type of ancient marine reptile, and that it probably reached 3 to 4 meters in length, about the size of a small rowboat.

Articulated skeleton of Ophthalmosaurid ichthyosaur at the excavation site south of Lodai village, situated 30 km northeast of Bhuj town, the headquarters of Ka - chchh District in Gujarat state, western India.

SEA MONSTER A 170 - million - year - old marine reptile (illustrated) found in Scotland may represent a new species of ichthyosaur.

For their study, the researchers looked at three sets of fossils (now housed in museums in Denmark, England, and Texas) of widely disparate creatures from different eras: a leatherback turtle that lived about 55 million years ago, a large predator called a mosasaur that lived about 86 million years ago, and an ichthyosaur that swam the seas between 190 million and 196 million years ago.

A comprehensive new study looking at variations in Ichthyosaurus, a common British Jurassic ichthyosaur (sea - going reptile) also known as «Sea Dragons», has provided important information into recognizing new fossil species.

Fifteen hundred hours of digging into northwest India's sedimentary rock has brought forth the nearly complete skeleton of a 150 - million - year - old ichthyosaur — a marine reptile that roamed the seas in the age of dinosaurs, National Geographic reports.

That's because most ichthyosaur bones from this period have been found in regions farther north like Europe and North America.

Scientists in Britain have identified what they say is the world's oldest fossilized vomit — a collection of shells from an extinct squidlike creature swallowed long ago by an ichthyosaur.

We can't know that, says Steffen Kiel of the University of Göttingen in Germany, as the ichthyosaur died in shallow water, but modern whale falls are deeper.

This Jurassic fossil, the first of its kind for India, suggests that ichthyosaurs were more widespread than previously thought, researchers reported this week in PLOS ONE.

In 1979, after inspecting several ichthyosaurs from the UK, palaeontologist Dr Robert Appleby announced a new type of ichthyosaur called Protoichthyosaurus.

Scientists know a good deal about these animals from the fossil record, but newly published results in Historical Biology, gleaned from a long - forgotten specimen recently discovered in the Lapworth Museum of Geology at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom, are recasting both the size and diets of baby ichthyosaurs.

There may be another explanation for how ichthyosaurs — «dino dolphins» — suffered the bends other than rapid surfacing in...

In a paper published in Scientific Reports, paleontologists describe a new marine reptile, Sclerocormus parviceps, an ichthyosauriform that's breaking all the rules about what ichthyosaurs are likIn a paper published in Scientific Reports, paleontologists describe a new marine reptile, Sclerocormus parviceps, an ichthyosauriform that's breaking all the rules about what ichthyosaurs are likin Scientific Reports, paleontologists describe a new marine reptile, Sclerocormus parviceps, an ichthyosauriform that's breaking all the rules about what ichthyosaurs are like.

One rare exception — discovered in the 1800s in southern England's Bristol Channel — is a spectacularly preserved, 180 - million - year - old ichthyosaur named Hauffiopteryx.

Many ichthyosaur fossils were found in England during the early 19th century, but it was not until 1821 that the first ichthyosaur species was described — called Ichthyosaurus communis.

The remains of a 3 - metre ichthyosaur are covered in marks left by the creatures that gnawed its bones, hinting at what feasted on death during the dinosaur era

The remains of a 3 - metre - long ichthyosaur are covered in marks left by the creatures that gnawed its bones, hinting at the creatures that feasted on death during the dinosaur era

The duo confirm the species are the same and that features of Ichthyosaurus intermedius can be found in other ichthyosaur species, including I. communis.

In the years that followed, many eminent scientists, including Sir Richard Owen (the man who coined the word dinosaur), studied ichthyosaur fossils collected from Dorset, Somerset, Yorkshire and other locations in EnglanIn the years that followed, many eminent scientists, including Sir Richard Owen (the man who coined the word dinosaur), studied ichthyosaur fossils collected from Dorset, Somerset, Yorkshire and other locations in Englanin England.

While most Triassic marine reptiles lived in shallow seas, plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs were strong swimmers that lived in the open seas and gave birth to live young.

It has been on display since the 1920's at London's Natural History Museum with 120 other plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs, mounted in sand, wax resin and plaster.

In a stunning example of convergent evolution, Plotosaurus had evolved a body shape approaching that of the ichthyosaurs (Lethaia, vol 40, p 153).

In 2002, Motani estimated that Stenopterygius, a 180 - million - year - old ichthyosaur from Europe, had a cruising speed comparable with tuna, which are among the fastest of all living fish (Paleobiology, vol 28, p 251).

In 2004, a team led by Elizabeth Nicholls of the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller, Canada, excavated a monstrous ichthyosaur from 210 - million - year - old rocks in British ColumbiIn 2004, a team led by Elizabeth Nicholls of the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller, Canada, excavated a monstrous ichthyosaur from 210 - million - year - old rocks in British Columbiin Drumheller, Canada, excavated a monstrous ichthyosaur from 210 - million - year - old rocks in British Columbiin British Columbia.

Ichthyosaurs (which in Greek means «fish lizards») lived from about 248 million years ago to about 95 million years ago, says Da - Yong Jiang, a vertebrate paleontologist at Peking University in Beijing.

C. lenticarpus «is the closest thing we have to a terrestrial ancestor» of ichthyosaurs, says Valentin Fischer, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Liège in Belgium, who wasn't connected to the research.

The new fossil of the presumed proto - ichthyosaur was unearthed from rocks in eastern China in 2011.

He re-told the familiar tale of the evolution of land animals from ancient fish, and then considered the return of various groups of reptiles, birds and mammals to an aquatic existence: ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs, crocodiles, sea - snakes, penguins, whales, dolphins and porpoises, manatees and dugongs, and seals — as well as polar bears, otters and water voles, who hunt in water.

Fossils of a prehistoric ichthyosaur the size of a blue whale were found in the beach area in the UK.

It's the earliest evidence of Ichthyosaur embryos to have ever been found in the British Isles.

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:

The first almost - complete Jurassic ichthyosaur fossil was found in the Kachchh Region of Gujarat, India.

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.

Previous research showed ichthyosaurs varied in length, from just a few centimeters (at the smallest) to around 15 meters (at the largest).

The ichthyosaurs appeared in the early Triassic, and radiated into huge, marine - dominating species.

You can visit Camp's original dig site and see the remains of these magnificent animals in place at Berlin - Ichthyosaur State Park.

Dating techniques used to determine the age of the fossils reveal that ichthyosaurs dominated the ocean in the late Triassic and early Cretaceous periods, just as when the dinosaurs were on the brink of extinction.

Following his hunch that it could be from the prehistoric ichthyosaur, he sent two samples to marine labs — one to Dean Lomax at the University of Manchester, and another to Dr. Judy Massare at the SUNY Brockport in New York.