180-million-year-old 'sea monster' found with skin and blubber [Ichthyosaur]

FoxNews.com/Science ^ | Dec 6, 2018 | Chris Ciaccia

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Fossil preserves ‘sea monster’ blubber and skin

By Paul Rincon Science editor, BBC News website

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46457674

[Army Air Corps]

The top illustration in your post reminds me of a Dolphin.

[2banana]

Let’s clone it and open a theme park.

[PetroniusMaximus]

I hereby decree that the term “blubber” shall from henceforth be used more frequently in the common parlance.

[Mears]

They found Rosie O’Donnell’s body?

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[central_va]

Is that real?

[SES1066]

Form following function leads to very similar streamlined shapes for marine predators.

[fieldmarshaldj]

*ping*

[C19fan]

Incredible find. I luved the Mosasaur featured in “Jurassic World” but was disappointed there was no dolphin like show featuring Ichtyosaurs.

[TheBattman]

Its discovery in this ancient "sea monster" - an ichthyosaur - appears to confirm the animal was warm-blooded, a rarity in reptiles.

Or maybe the simpler explanation - that it wasn't a reptile at all....????

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[Cold Heart]

As in ‘Bring home the blubber?’

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Mosasaur

Mosasaurs are an extinct group of large marine reptiles containing 38 genera in total.

Their first fossil remains were discovered in a limestone quarry at Maastricht on the Meuse in 1764.

Mosasaurs probably evolved from an extinct group of aquatic lizards[1] known as aigialosaurs in the Early Cretaceous.

During the last 20 million years of the Cretaceous period (Turonian-Maastrichtian ages), with the extinction of the ichthyosaurs and pliosaurs, mosasaurs became the dominant marine predators.

They became extinct as a result of the K-Pg event at the end of the Cretaceous period, about 66 million years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosasaur

[wbarmy]

This specimen has given us more evidence that these tissues and molecules can preserve for extremely long periods, and that soft tissue analysis can shed light on evolutionary patterns, relationships, and how ancient animals functioned in their environment.

BS, this doesn't prove that the tissues can "preserve" for a long time. It proves the tissues haven't been in the stone for a long time.

[Buckeye McFrog]

180-million-year-old 'sea monster' found with skin and blubber

[C19fan]

That is funny someone actually checked the size of the Mosasaur from the movie.

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[Flaming Conservative]

BS, this doesn’t prove that the tissues can “preserve” for a long time. It proves the tissues haven’t been in the stone for a long time.

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Yea, and Amen!