Dinosaur of unknown size added for scale.
An 11-Year-Old Girl’s Fossil Find Is the Largest Known Ocean Reptile
Submitted 7 months ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to nyt_gift_articles@sopuli.xyz
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sir_pronoun@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Kachilde@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Misread the title as “An 11-Year-Old Gilr’s Fossil “Found IN* the Largest Known Ocean Reptile”, and thought we were about to get a major shakeup of the dinosaur timeline, or a time travel mystery.
grue@lemmy.world 7 months ago
An 82-foot icthyosaur that they think hadn’t even finished growing when it died. Holy shit.
Imagine an animal rivaling the length of a blue whale, but that was (I’m guessing) an actively-hunting apex predator, not a filter-feeder.
ptz@dubvee.org 7 months ago
Is that a velociraptor for scale? The most confusingly-sized dinosaur thanks to Jurassic Park?
silence7@slrpnk.net 7 months ago
I’m not sure, but you could as the artist who drew the picture for the article