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In short: A fossil jawbone that was found on an English beach by an 11-year-old girl and her father has been identified as an icthyosaur. The ichthyosaur is estimated to have been between 22 and 26 ...

A jaw-dropping discovery by a father-daughter fossil-collecting team has unearthed what scientists believe to be the largest marine reptile to ever roam the Earth's oceans. Found on a beach in ...

In May 2020, while most of the world was in lockdown, 11-year-old Ruby Reynolds and her father, Justin, scanned the mudflats of Blue Anchor, Somerset, for fossils. What they found wasn't just a simple ...

This illustration depicts a washed-up Ichthyotitan severnensis carcass on the beach. In late May 2020, 11-year-old Ruby Reynolds and her father, Justin Reynolds, drove to Blue Anchor, a seaside ...

New fossil discoveries are forcing scientists to redraw the boundaries of ancient oceans, suggesting that some of the most formidable marine predators did not always stay at sea. From gigantic ...

(Reuters) - A fossil jawbone found by a British girl and her father on a beach in Somerset, England belongs to a gigantic marine reptile dating to 202 million years ago that appears to have been among ...

In late May 2020, 11-year-old Ruby Reynolds and her father, Justin Reynolds, drove to Blue Anchor, a seaside village in Somerset in southwest England, to hunt for fossils along the beach. Upon ...

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