Gigantic marine reptile's fossils found by British girl and father

The washed-up carcass of a Ichthyotitan severnensis, a newly identified species of marine reptile that lived 202 million years ago based on fossils discovered at Somerset, England, lies on a shore in this illustration obtained by Reuters on April 16, 2024.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 the largest animals ever on Earth.

Marine reptiles ruled the world's oceans when dinosaurs dominated the land. Ichthyosaurs, which evolved from terrestrial ancestors and prospered for about 160 million years before disappearing roughly 90 million years ago, came in various sizes and shapes, eating fish, squid relatives and other marine reptiles and giving birth to live young.

Ruby Reynolds, who was 11 at the time and is now 15, was fossil hunting on the beach with her father when they spotted a piece of the surangular. Ruby continued to search the area and found a second piece — much larger than the first — partly buried in a mud slope. They subsequently contacted Lomax, an ichthyosaur expert, and additional sections of the bone were unearthed.

"It has been an amazing, enlightening and fun experience to work with these experts, and we are proud to be part of the team and co-authors of a scientific paper which names a new species and genus," Justin Reynolds added.Ichthyotitan's sheer size was awe-inspiring.

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