For its previous food, an ancient maritime reptile referred to as an ichthyosaur might have bitten off far more than it could chew.
The dolphinlike creature was almost 5 meters very long, about the length of a canoe. And its stomach contained the continues to be of a lizardlike reptile termed a thalattosaur that was almost as very long: 4 meters. This is the longest known prey of a marine reptile from the dinosaur age, and may perhaps be the oldest direct proof of a marine reptile consuming an animal greater than a human, scientists report August 20 in iScience