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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 ...
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 Cuers specimen is known from fragments discovered in two separate excavations, but believed to represent a single specimen. A small rostrum fragment believed to be a premaxilla (MHNTV PAL-1-10/2012) and a long mandible fragment (MHNTV PAL-2/2010) are known, as well as vertebral centra and rib fragments associated to both collection numbers.
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 ...
A fossilized tooth fragment found in the Swiss Alps comes from a giant ichthyosaur, a carnivorous sea creature that lived more than 200 million years ago.
Currently, the largest marine reptile identified to date is the Late Triassic ichthyosaur Ichthyotitan, which is thought to have reached around 25 meters (82 ft) in length. [69] The Harvard skeleton restoration being erroneous, McHenry gives a smaller size of this specimen between 9 and 10.5 meters (30 and 34 ft) long [ 21 ] for a weight of 11 ...
Experts estimate that the giant creature would have been more than 25 metres long.