Prehistoric Marine Reptile Died After A Giant Meal

Share this on WhatsApp Hundreds of millions of years ago, reptilian predators called ichthyosaurs swam the seas. Their fossils look fearsome. But paleobiologist Ryosuke Motani of U.C. Davis says they may have looked more like friendly dolphins. “Maybe in life ichthyosaurs would have been cute—at least the smaller ones.”  Motani’s team studied one such specimen … Continue reading Prehistoric Marine Reptile Died After A Giant Meal