Ichthyosaur
Ichthyosaurs Greek for fish lizard were giant marine reptiles that resembled fish and dolphins. Ichthyosaurs thrived during much of the Mesozoic era.
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. They became extinct around 90 million years ago after first appearing 250 million years ago. Workers excavating the sea dragon. Ich thyo saur ˈik-thē-ə-ˌsȯr Definition of ichthyosaur.
They concluded it was an ichthyosaur - a type of warm-blooded air-breathing sea predator not unlike dolphins. They could grow up to 25 metres long and lived between 250 million and 90 million years ago. Dr Dean Lomax a palaeontologist from Manchester University was brought in to lead the excavation effort.
These distant relatives of lizards and snakes lepidosaurs were the most highly specialized aquatic reptiles but. Ichthyosaurs Ancient Greek for fish lizard ἰχθύς or ichthys meaning fish and σαῦρος or sauros meaning lizard are large extinct marine reptiles. Ichthyosaur any member of an extinct group of aquatic reptiles most of which were very similar to porpoises in appearance and habits.
With a skull size of 2 meters and an estimated body size of 17 meters this creature is the largest animal discovered from the Middle Triassic 242-244 million years ago. Based on fossil evidence they first appeared approximately 245 million years ago mya and disappeared about 90 million years ago about 25 million years before the dinosaurs became extinct. Any of an order Ichthyosauria of extinct marine reptiles of the Mesozoic specialized for aquatic life by a streamlined body with a long snout limbs reduced to small fins for steering and a large lunate caudal fin.
21 hours agoMarine reptiles that lived alongside the dinosaurs ichthyosaurs resembled dolphins in body shape.
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