BBC Focus Magazine

[Healerman]

It seems some of these guys may have hung around for a bit longer than was thought.

Researchers from the State Natural History Museum in Braunschweig said the rare fossil ichthyosaur find from northern Germany is 130 million years old, dating from the Lower Cretaceous era. Most ichthyosaur fossils previously found date from the Jurassic era, millions of years earlier.
The newly discovered ichthyosaur species, unearthed during road work in 2005, has been called Acamptonectes densus, "Stiff Swimmer."

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