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A massive jawbone found by a father-daughter fossil-collecting duo on a beach in Somerset along the English coast belonged to a newfound species that’s likely the largest known marine reptile to ...
That would make it perhaps the largest-known marine reptile and would rival some of the largest baleen whales alive today. The blue whale, considered the largest animal ever on the planet, can ...
It is known from two fragmentary surangular bones of the lower jaw, discovered in ... largest marine reptile currently known. ... found on 28 May 2020 by 11-year-old ...
The gigantic Shonisaurus sikanniensis (considered as a shastasaurus between 2011 and 2013) whose remains were found in the Pardonet Formation of British Columbia by Elizabeth Nicholls, has been estimated to be as much as 21 m (69 ft) in length—if correct, the largest marine reptile known to date.
The smallest-known mosasaur was Dallasaurus turneri, which was less than 1 m (3.3 ft) long. Larger mosasaurs were more typical, with many species growing longer than 4 m (13 ft). Mosasaurus hoffmannii, the largest known species reached up to 17 m (56 ft), [3] but it has been considered to be probably overestimated by Cleary et al. (2018). [4]
The largest known specimen among the living crocodilians was an Orinoco crocodile with a length of 6.78 m (22.2 ft). [2] One of the largest known Saltwater crocodile measured 6.2 m (20.3 ft) and was shot in Papua New Guinea. [2] A 6.17 m (20.2 ft) long individual was captured alive in Mindanao in 2011. [3]
The giant ichthyosaur would have been up to 26m long.
This timeline of ichthyosaur research is a chronological listing of events in the history of paleontology focused on the ichthyosauromorphs, a group of secondarily aquatic marine reptiles whose later members superficially resembled dolphins, sharks, or swordfish. Scientists have documented ichthyosaur fossils at least as far back as the late ...