Sentences with phrase «other ichthyosaur»

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

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.

Other comparisons suggest the Lilstock ichthyosaur was at least 20 - 25 m. Of course, such estimates are not entirely realistic because of differences between species.

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

Doyle says the shells couldn't have come out the other end of the ichthyosaur because they would have damaged its internal organs.

Other scientists, however, dismissed the discovery of Protoichthyosaurus and suggested that it was identical with Ichthyosaurus, a very common UK ichthyosaur.

Overall, comparing Vadasaurus's features with those of earlier and later pleurosaurs may provide scientists with insights about how evolution might have progressed among other, totally separate lineages of ancient creatures that also undertook the land - to - sea transition, including ichthyosaurs and mosasaurs, marine reptiles that swam the seas worldwide during large portions of the dinosaur era.

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

Two of the species were later re-identified as other types of ichthyosaur, whereas one of these species, called Ichthyosaurus intermedius, was still considered closely related to 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 England.

Ichthyosaurs went extinct about 90 million years ago while the others died out with the dinosaurs.

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.

All other marine reptiles, apart from the dolphin - like ichthyosaurs, died out.

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.

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:

There is a vast diversity of additional groups of fossil vertebrates, including: (1) crocodilians and their extinct pseudosuchian kin; (2) marine reptiles such as plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurs, placodonts, and the like; (3) lepidosaurs (snakes, lizards, mosasaurs, tuataras, and their extinct relatives); (4) other fossil reptiles; (5) the extinct synapsid ancestors and relatives of mammals; and (6) amphibian - grade animals such as lepospondyls, temnospondyls, and seymouriamorphs (Benton 2014).

Unlike other air - breathing aquatic reptiles, ichthyosaurs did not have to return to land to lay eggs, but bore live young.