Fossils Indicate Awesome Battle Between Awesome Prehistoric Sea Monsters
Posted by Editor on May 10th, 2011
An era before time. An era before aquatic decency. An era of totally bitching ichthyosaur fights!
New fossil finds indicate a very violent encounter (most likely) between two ichthyosaurs which left one scarred by deep gouges in the snout. Little is known for sure about the 20-foot-long creatures, since it has no living relatives. Since the bite pattern on the recovered fossil matches that of another ichthyosaur, it is telling that they fought amongst themselves for land and territory.
Either way, it’s a tragedy of epic proportions that these two beasts were fighting and killing each other before YouTube was invented.
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