Sentences with phrase «old ichthyosaur»

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).

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

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.

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

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.

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 Columbia.