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1 day ago · Experts estimate that the giant creature would have been more than 25 metres long. They believe the specimen represents possibly the largest marine reptile ever recorded In May 2020, Justin and Ruby Reynolds from Braunton, Devon, discovered the first pieces of the second jawbone while hunting for fossils on the beach at Blue Anchor.
1 day ago · Ichthyosauria (Ancient Greek for "fish lizard" – Ancient Greek: ἰχθύς, romanized : ichthys, lit. 'fish' and Ancient Greek: σαῦρος, romanized : sauros, lit. 'lizard') is an order of large extinct marine reptiles sometimes referred to as "ichthyosaurs", although the term is also used for wider clades that the order resides in.
4 hours ago · Scientists consider the blue whale, which grows up to 110 feet (33.5 meters) long, to be the largest known animal ever to exist on the planet. But it’s possible that the 202 million-year-old ...
1 day ago · Oryzomys nelsoni. María Madre Island, Mexico. Last recorded in 1897. Possibly extinct due to introduced black rats. [13] Giant island deer mouse. Peromyscus nesodytes. Channel Islands of California. Most recent remains at Cave of the Chimneys, San Miguel Island, dated to around 950 CE.
1 day ago · Elephant. Elephants are the largest living land animals. Three living species are currently recognised: the African bush elephant ( Loxodonta africana ), the African forest elephant ( L. cyclotis ), and the Asian elephant ( Elephas maximus ). They are the only surviving members of the family Elephantidae and the order Proboscidea; extinct ...
1 day ago · Experts estimate that the giant creature would have been more than 25 metres long.
1 day ago · American alligator. The American alligator ( Alligator mississippiensis ), sometimes referred to colloquially as a gator or common alligator, is a large crocodilian reptile native to the Southeastern United States and a small section of northeastern Mexico. It is one of the two extant species in the genus Alligator, and is larger than the only ...
