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 like.
Not exact matches
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.
Twitchett and his colleagues examined tiny fossils on and inside an
ichthyosaur's bones to find out
what happened after it died.
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.
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
This is
what drove this assortment of collectors on to the next bird of paradise, or
ichthyosaur, mole skin or fossil skull, at whatever cost.
The discovery of the
ichthyosaur jawbone sheds light on the mystery of
what they once thought as the «dinosaur limb bones».