Chilean scientists successfully recovered one of the world's most complete ichthyosaur fossils with intact embryos from the Tyndall Glacier in Chile's Patagonia region. The preserved and pregnant ancient marine reptile was dubbed "Fiona" by scientists. The 4-meter-long fossil will help scientists study embryonic development in ichtyosaurs, which roamed the seas between 90 and 250 million years ago. Paleontologists of the GAIA Antarctic Research Center of the University of Magallanes recover the first fossil of a four-meter Ichthyosaur at Tyndall Glacier area in the Chilean Patagonia, Magallanes, Chile April 16, 2022. GAIA Antarctic Research Center University of Magallanes/Handout via REUTERS The fossil "is the only pregnant ichthyosaur that's been found on the planet from the era...
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Geologists at Lund University in Sweden have mapped 300 years of research on the prehistoric marine reptiles known as ichthyosaurs. Using a uniquely well-preserved fossil, the team has also created the scientifically most up-to-date reconstruction of an ichthyosaur currently available. Historical ichthyosaur reconstructions made during the 19th and early 20th centuries. A. Duria Antiquior (1830) by Henry De la Beche. B. “The Ichthyosaur and the Plesiosaur (period of the Lias)” in Earth before the Deluge (1863) by Louis Figuier. C. Photograph of a Tremnodontosaurus model in Crystal Palace Park made by Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins. D. “Mosasaur and Ichthyosaurs” in Die Wunder der Urwelt (1912) by Heinrich Harder. E. Painting of a pod of ichthyosaurs by Heinrich Harder as part of a collect...
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