Category: ichthyosaur

Fossil of Pregnant Ichthyosaur Discovered in Chile

The University of Magallanes announced on May 10 the discovery of the complete fossil of a pregnant ichthyosaur in Chile’s Patagonian glacier. The paleontologist who led the team said it was the only known fossil of a pregnant ichthyosaur from the Early Cretaceous period, between 129 and 139 million years ago The four-meter-long fossil was…


Conservationist Stumbles on 180-Million-Year-Old Ocean Reptile ‘Ichthyosaur’ on Bottom of Lagoon in Rutland, UK

The routine draining of a lagoon in Britain exposed the remains of a Jurassic reptilian sea-dweller called the ichthyosaur—more impressively known as the “sea dragon.” In preparation for re-landscaping, regrading islands in the UK’s Rutland Water Nature Reserve, Rutland water conservation team leader Joe Davis, alongside Reserves Officer Paul Trevor, spotted what looked like “clay…