Sea Dragon Fossil

[ysabetwordsmith]

A complete ichthyosaur skeleton has been discovered in Britain. 

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Thoughts:

1) I shall revive it and send it out to do battle against my enemies! (Not really but funny thought...)

2) I wonder if Stulet's going to have a pet one in his menagerie someday?

3) There was a link to another interesting article:
https://www.livescience.com/dinosaur-embryo-fossil-egg-discovered

[siliconshaman]

Calling it a 'sea dragon' is a bit disingenuous, but still cool!

Well ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

Looking at the picture, I can see where they got the idea. All it really lacks is the breath weapon ... and we don't actually know it didn't have something like that.

Though admittedly, this world's "sea dragons" are tiny seahorse relatives.

Re: Well ...

[(Anonymous)]

Dolphins can use sonar and squirt water from their mouths.

[cmcmck]

There was an archaeology programme on last night which covered this very find.

It's huge!

Yes ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

I heard that people will be doing a documentary and some studies about it.

[tarasacon]

I’m impressed that they excavated something that big in less than a month!

Yes ...

[ysabetwordsmith]

That is fast, especially for its size. Whole skeletons are extremely rare in paleontology.

[cmcmck]

It was a rescue dig being so close to water (a very large reservoir) and so close to being inundated.

[tarasacon]

Aha!

[savageseraph]

I saw that in the news the other day. It is very, very cool!