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This 80-foot-long sea monster was the killer whale of its time

这只80英尺长的海怪是其时代的逆戟鲸。

An illustration of a giant pair of swimming <i>Ichthyotitan severnensis</i>, a marine reptile that paleontologists believe may have been the orca of its day.

2024-04-17    

“When we first described the first specimen, I was hopeful more specimens would come to light,” Lomax said. He got his wish. In 2020, fossil enthusiasts Ruby and Justin Reynolds found a second hunk of ichthyosaur jaw in Somerset, England. The pair started to read around to try and work out what they found. In the process, they stumbled on Lomax’s 2018 paper and, sensing a match, got in touch. 

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