When Ruby Reynolds and her father found a fossil on an English beach, they didn’t know it belonged to an 82-foot ichthyosaur that swam during the days of the dinosaurs.
  • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    An 82-foot icthyosaur that they think hadn’t even finished growing when it died. Holy shit.

    Imagine an animal rivaling the length of a blue whale, but that was (I’m guessing) an actively-hunting apex predator, not a filter-feeder.