Scientists have identified a new species of an extinct marine reptile, that lived at the same time as the dinosaurs about 200 million years ago.
Similar-shaped to dolphins and sharks, ichthyosaurs - often misidentified as 'swimming dinosaurs' - swam the seas of Earth for millions of years during the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.
The fossil found in the UK is from the earliest part of the Jurassic Period -- 200 million years ago -- and only a handful of ichthyosaur species are known from this period, making the discovery very significant. READ MORE
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