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Giant marine reptiles terrorized ancient seas


Claire.

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How giant marine reptiles terrorized the ancient seas.

Valentin Fischer had always wanted to study fossils, perhaps dinosaurs or extinct mammals. Instead, when he was in graduate school, Fischer ended up sorting through a pile of bones belonging to ancient marine reptiles known as ichthyosaurs — a group that had been mostly ignored by modern palaeontologists. It was not exactly his dream job.

Read more: Nature.com

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Fascinating article. The first fossils I ever remember being aware of were of an ichthyosaur (which to emphasise one of the points in the article, the spell checker doesn't recognise) and a plesiosaur, and I've always had a fondness for these. I hope we'll see more on them in the future.  

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