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Rare ichthyosaur is only second known example

A rare 200 million-year-old Ichthyosaur specimen has been discovered in a private collection 22 years after it was originally found. Life reconstruction of Wahlisaurus massarae [Credit: James McKay]The fossil is only the second example of Wahlisaurus massarae, a new species of ichthyosaur discovered by The University of Manchester palaeontologist, Dean Lomax. This fossil was originally found in 1996 and has now been donated to a...

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