Tag: marine reptile
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Paleontologists unearth what may be the largest known marine reptile
Phys.org has a story about the discovery of what might be the largest marine reptile ever found. A father and daughter, Justin and Ruby Reynolds from Braunton, Devon, found pieces of the jawbone of a huge ichthyosaur that lived about 202 million years ago during the Triassic Period. While hunting fossils on the beach at…
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PBS Eons: The Sea Monster from the Andes
There’s a new episode of PBS Eons. This one is about a giant sea monster called Kronosaurus. In 1977, a farmer was plowing his field on a plateau high in the Andes mountains when he stumbled upon a giant fossilized skeleton. How did this giant marine reptile end up high in the Andes Mountains?
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PBS Eons: When Ichthyosaurs Led a Revolution in the Seas
PBS Eons has a video about the rise of the Ichthyosaurs after the “Great Dying” at the end of the Permian. PBS Eons is a great, educational series from PBS on Youtube, with a new episode each week. The marine reptiles Ichthyosaurs arose after The Great Dying, which wiped out at least 90 percent…
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Palaeocast Episode 85: Ichthyosaurs
The Palaeocast podcast has a new episode on Ichthyosaurs. The discussion centers around a new documentary called “Attenborough and the Sea Dragon”. Ichthyosaurs are large marine reptiles that existed for most of the Mesozoic Era. The most familiar forms superficially represent dolphins, but some earlier ichthyosaurs were more eel like. They could attain huge proportions,…
