When Ruby Reynolds and her father found a fossil on an English beach, they didn’t know it belonged to an 82-foot ichthyosaur that swam during the days of the dinosaurs. By Kate Golembiewski In ...
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Accompanied by her father, Justin Reynolds, Ruby stumbled upon several bone fragments embedded in rock during a fossil-hunting expedition near the village of Blue Anchor. Little did they know that ...
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Dean Lomax, Ruby Reynolds, Justin Reynolds, and Paul de la Salle with ichthyosaur fossil – Courtesy of Dean Lomax While these fossils may not look like much, they are part of the jawbone of what ...
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 ...
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 ...
An 11-year-old girl on a fossil hunt with her father uncovered a chunk of jawbone, leading paleontologists to later identify the bones as belonging to a previously unknown titan of the prehistoric ...