This Arctic Ichthyosaur Should Not Exist
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Australian-born Benjamin Kear is a hunter of the High Arctic. With colleague and friend Jørn Hurum, he chose a quarry, and set…
Australian-born Benjamin Kear is a hunter of the High Arctic. With colleague and friend Jørn Hurum, he chose a quarry, and set…
The face!
Ingentia prima outcropping from the soil. Paraphrasing Dickens, 2018 was the best of years, and it was the worst of years.
Ichthyosaurs had traits in common with turtles and modern marine mammals, like blubber and countershading camouflage.
The ichthyosaur (literally ‘fish-lizard’) lived in what is today southern Germany during the Jurassic Period some 180 million…
An international team of paleontologists has found the exceptionally preserved remains of a Stenopterygius ichthyosaur that…
Plesiosaurus battling Temnodontosaurus (Oligostinus), front piece the Book of the Great Sea-Dragons by Thomas Hawkins. In 1811…
An Ichthyosaur is a cross between a fish and a dinosaur, that looks like a dolphin. The word comes from the ancient Greek for “Fi…
Blubber is extremely rare among reptiles.
Palaeontology is the scientific discipline that seeks information about the origin and evolution of the biosphere. To…
Уникальный образец ихтиозавра юрского периода сохранил остатки мягких тканей, которые указали на теплокровность этих морских репт…
Ichthyosaurs and dolphins are the archetypal examples of convergent evolution in action, in which two completely unrelated…
For the first time, researchers have identified blubber, and other soft tissue, preserved in an Early Jurassic ichthyosaur. The…
Палеонтологи предположили, что ихтиозавры могли быть теплокровными, сообщается в Nature.