A friendly reminder that I also drew ichthyosaurs

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I want them to be REAL. (Ichthyosaur claw clips)

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August 12, 1857, Victorian palaeontologists William Daniel Conybeare died He made important contributions on the anatomy of the Ichthyosauri and worked on the geology of the British Islands ⚒️ In 1821, he described the marine reptile Plesiosaurus 🐉
https://t.co/CDQXAl3kMB

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Mural palaeoart of Ichthyosaurus, Pterodactyl & Diplodocus by French painter Mathurin Meheut, from 1940s Nazi-occupied France

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You can't imagine the depths of biblical accurate ichthyosaur's mind...
(or how deep we went on tonight's voice chat...) https://t.co/T2y7soDjzh

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in 1824 geologist Charles Lyell wrote to Gideon Mantell about his recent visit to in where he saw 'the discovery of a superb skeleton of Ichthyosaurus by Miss Anning. It was perfect, save the tail which a cart-wheel had passed over. It was 2 feet long'

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"an ichthyosaurus fire type pokemon in a white square" Again, mini.

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Results from the
Titanoceratops, Spinosaurus for , Dinocephalosaurus and Guizhouichthyosaurus.

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Whenever Mattel makes an aquatic reptile everyone gets excited, and for good reason! Still hoping we get an ichthyosaurus and an elasmosaurus. But a liopleurodon is a really welcomed addition.

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in 1819 William Bullock began the 26-day auction of the entire contents of his London Museum, the Egyptian Hall on Piccadilly. Amongst the specimens to be sold was the skull found in 1811 by brother Joseph.

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After seeing all of the interesting art, I decided to do my own. A group of kids gathered around watch the Ichthyosaurs up close.

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April 6, 1821, the description of the very first ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs by William Conybeare published. Both fossils were found by palaeontologist Mary Anning 🪨🔨
https://t.co/g2mhuFy9Wx

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you know gathering all my progress on on giant marine reptiles I got like less than 20 of the biggest, excluding other large giant ichthyosaurs, large marine crocodiles, turtles and other sauropterygians, is really a long way to follow if I can get them all...

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A great past vs modern interpretation of Ichthyosaurus by
A recent paper came out on soft tissue reconstruction on ichthyosaurs that everyone should check out.
https://t.co/V0NV45weNb

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Ichthyosaurus

A 3 meter long surprisingly fish like marine reptile, it hunted fish and cephalopods using mainly its large eyes and hydrodynamic body

ALT: A species described somewhat recently and named after Mary Anning, the bone was originally misidentified as plaster

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