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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