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Researchers from the UK and US argue the fossilized remnants of two separate jawbones found England's south west represent a previously unknown genus of late Triassicthe team estimates the animal would have had a length of up to more than 25 meters studied and described Paul's giant jawbone and we had hoped that one day another would come to light.
The last piece of the bone was collected in October 2022, and the paleontologists got to work putting the puzzle together and identifying the creature to which the jaw belonged. And they found that the new surangular had the same unique features seen in the jawbone of the Lilstock Monster. This might explain the scarcity of giant ichthyosaur bones in the fossil record, although fragments have been found hinting at some chonkers clockingAnd there's evidence to suggest that the two individuals – whose bones are finally revealing the animals to us hundreds of millions of years later – hadn't reached their full size when they died.
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