The story began when 11-year-old Ruby Reynolds found her first jawbone fragment while searching for fossils on the beach with her father, Justin. Realizing the importance of his findings, paleontologist Dr. They contacted Dean Lomax.

This isn’t the first such discovery. In 2016, experienced fossil collector Paul de la Salle found a similar jawbone further down the beach. Two finds, very similar in size and structure, confirmed the existence of this giant ichthyosaur.

The research team, led by Dr Lomax, named the new species Ichthyotitan severnensis. These 202 million-year-old creatures dominated the seas during the Triassic period, along with the first dinosaurs on land.

Ichthyotitan is not the first giant ichthyosaur, but the size of its jawbones suggest it was a creature rivaling the size of the blue whale. Interestingly, the fossils fill a 13-million-year gap in the ichthyosaur fossil record.

Source: Ferra

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