Forgotten fossil that lay in a museum for half a century is found to be a new species of 'British' ichthyosaur

A new species of ichthyosaur - an extinct marine reptile alive at the same time as the dinosaurs - has been identified in Nottinghamshire.

Ichthyosaurs, which look similar to dolphins and sharks, swam the seas of the Earth for millions of years in the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods. 

Two hundred million years from the early Jurassic period, a palaeontologist has just discovered a new 'British' species, which he has named Wahlisaurus massarae.read more