"Giant Predatory Ichthyosaur Discovered in Nevada" Topic

"An enormous marine predator lurked in the Triassic seas covering Nevada: a 30-foot-long sea monster big enough to eat reptiles its own size.

Named Thalattoarchon saurophagis — lizard-eating sovereign of the sea — the four-finned icthyosaur was a large apex marine predator, occupying the same position atop its food web as present-day great white sharks and killer whales, a team of paleontologists reports Jan. 7 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

"It was the first giant air-breathing marine predator equipped with teeth with cutting edges," said Ryosuke Motani, a paleobiologist at the University of California, Davis who was not involved in the discovery.

T. saurophagis had a mouth full of 5-inch-long teeth and existed just 8 million years after a mass extinction killed most of the planet's marine fauna at the end of the Permian period, 252 million years ago. That such a large predator emerged so soon after a catastrophic resetting of life on Earth suggests marine ecosystems might have rebounded more quickly than terrestrial ecosystems, the team reports."
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Armand

The Loch Ness Monster!

Thanks for posting this.
Mick

Just when you thought it was safe to go in the water----.

Someone call Stingray!

Thanks for posting, really appreciate.

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Armand

Named by someone who realised the need for a name to trip easily off the tongue…