Father-daughter 202 million-year-old fossil find could be largest prehistoric marine reptile

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Father-daughter 202 million-year-old fossil find could be largest prehistoric marine reptile
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Ruby, then 11, and her father, Justin Reynolds, found the first piece of the second jawbone in May 2020. Experts have identified the bones as belonging to a newly discovered species of prehistoric marine reptile that would have measured 65-feet long.

An 11-year-old girl on a fossil hunt with her father uncovered a chunk of jawbone, leading paleontologists to later identify the bones as belonging to a previously unknown titan of the prehistoric ocean.On Tuesday, scientists published a study in the journal PLOS ONE about the fossil finds, concluding that the bones are those of a new species of the enormous ichthyosaur, a prehistoric marine reptile estimated to be more than 65 feet long.

Core samples of the bones helped research team member Marcello Perillo, from the University of Bonn in Germany, determine the bones' origin and that the reptile wasn't fully grown when it died. The bones are 202 million years old, predating the global extinction event that ended the reign of marine reptiles that size. Ruby, now 15, became a published scientist this week when the study came out about the discovery.

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