Failure to Adapt: Why Giant Sea Dragons Got Extinct
This very complete specimen of the ichthyosaur Suevoleviathan is from the Early Jurassic of Germany. Many excellently preserved ichthyosaur fossils are known from this time and have been collected from the UK and Germany. Mary Anning from Lyme Regis is intimately associated with fossil collection and found the first recognized ichthyosaur fossils in 1810.
(Picture: Dr Ben Moon & Dr Tom Stubbs)
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