Giant prehistoric krakens may have sculpted self-portraits using ichthyosaur bones
Giant prehistoric krakens may have sculpted self-portraits using ichthyosaur bones:
For decades, paleontologists have puzzled over a fossil collection of nine Triassic icthyosaurs (Shonisaurus popularis) discovered in Nevada’s Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park. Researchers initially thought that this strange grouping of 45-foot-long marine reptiles had either died en masse from a poisonous plankton bloom or had become stranded in shallow water.
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