Sentences with phrase «young ichthyosaurs»

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.

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Fish were the food of choice for the young of another type of ichthyosaur that lived more recently, previous research has suggested.

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.

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