The new fossil found was of the ichthyosaurs. From LearnThat.org.
Anning's finds, now known as ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs, are on display at the Natural History Museum in London. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
Part of Riess’ case for flight in ichthyosaurs was based on analogy with two living animals: the Australian lungfish (Neoceratodus) and the Amazon river dolphin (Inia). From Wordnik.com. [Did ichthyosaurs fly? Probably not, no] Reference
Locomotion, biophysics of swimming and phylogeny of the ichthyosaurs. From Wordnik.com. [Did ichthyosaurs fly? Probably not, no] Reference
Plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs are not in any sense archosaurs or dinosaurs. From Wordnik.com. [Darwinopterus, the New Flying Reptile » E-Mail] Reference
Labels: ichthyosaurs, marine reptiles, Mesozoic posted by Darren Naish at 12: 45 AM. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-06-01] Reference
Labels: ichthyosaurs, marine reptiles, Mesozoic posted by Darren Naish at 12: 06 AM. From Wordnik.com. [Did ichthyosaurs fly? Probably not, no] Reference
Sea turtles and ichthyosaurs both have very porous bones similar to those of whales. From Wordnik.com. [My party and those marvellous metriorhynchids] Reference
Sharks, dolphins, ichthyosaurs - all oceanic predators must have the same basic design. From Wordnik.com. [2061 Odyssey Three]
Some ichthyosaurs had breech births, as their babies are preserved protruding head-first. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-06-01] Reference
The next session covers Mesozoic marine reptiles (excluding plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs). From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-10-01] Reference
Some of the neatest new data on ichthyosaurs comes from newly appreciated taxonomic diversity. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-06-01] Reference
Plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurs, and other aquatic contemporaries also fail your definition of dinosaur. From Wordnik.com. [Darwinopterus, the New Flying Reptile » E-Mail] Reference
Perhaps, out of all the extinct types of Mesozoic reptile, ichthyosaurs are the easiest to visualise. From Wordnik.com. [Did ichthyosaurs fly? Probably not, no] Reference
The result would surely have been different if these ichthyosaurs were not shark-like in their style of swimming. From Wordnik.com. [Did ichthyosaurs fly? Probably not, no] Reference
Important marine reptile fauna includes Temnodontosaurus, ichthyosaurs, Metriacanthosaurus parkeri, and pterosaurs. From Wordnik.com. [Dorset and East Devon Coast, United Kingdom] Reference
For a previous post on ichthyosaurs see ichthyosaurs wars and marvellous mixosaurs and Life in the Oxford Clay sea. From Wordnik.com. [Did ichthyosaurs fly? Probably not, no] Reference
Or, it would do, were there not some modern-day forms that possess many of the same features as the ichthyosaurs, but which do not fly. From Wordnik.com. [Did ichthyosaurs fly? Probably not, no] Reference
An ichthyosaur embryo from the Lower Lias (Jurassic: Hettangian) of Somerset, England, with comments on the reproductive biology of ichthyosaurs. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-06-01] Reference
The gigantic ichthyosaurs, mesosaurs, and dinosaurs held dominion over the sea and land, and the monster flying reptile, the pterodactyl, over the air. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
Darren Naish: Tetrapod Zoology: Did ichthyosaurs fly?. From Wordnik.com. [Did ichthyosaurs fly? Probably not, no] Reference
The bones of 37 ichthyosaurs have been identified at the site. From Wordnik.com. [Lahontan Valley News - Top Stories] Reference
Recently certain forms of flying ichthyosaurs have been discovered. From Wordnik.com. [LearnHub Activities] Reference
Liopleurodon was a carnivore (a meat-eater), which ate fish, ichthyosaurs, and other plesiosaurs. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
His efforts yielded 37 adult ichthyosaurs, which were some of the largest known animals from the Triassic Period. From Wordnik.com. [Lahontan Valley News - Top Stories] Reference
This constraint eliminates the otherwise interesting cases of ichthyosaurs and porpoises and of fishes and squids. From Wordnik.com. [ScreenTalk] Reference
The latter include ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs and marine crocodiles, of the families Teleosauridae and Metriorhynchidae. From Wordnik.com. [1. MajorityRights.com (main blog)] Reference
Like whales and seals, the ichthyosaurs were descended from land vertebrates which had become adapted to a marine habitat. From Wordnik.com. [The Elements of Geology] Reference
He concluded that the ichthyosaurs had become beached in a mudflat, as happens to modern-day whales, when the tide receded. From Wordnik.com. [Lahontan Valley News - Top Stories] Reference
These pressures caused first sharks, then ichthyosaurs and finally dolphins, to all adopt a very similar body shape and method of movement. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
Not surprisingly, the advanced shark-shaped ichthyosaurs (e.g. From Wordnik.com. [Did ichthyosaurs fly? Probably not, no] Reference
And it’s among shastasaurs that we find the biggest of all ichthyosaurs, and indeed the biggest of all marine reptiles. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-06-01] Reference
Mixosaurs are a fairly well studied and long-known group of basal Triassic ichthyosaurs, best known for little Mixosaurus (total length c. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-06-01] Reference
Observations on Triassic ichthyosaurs. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-06-01] Reference
Did ichthyosaurs possess such attributes?. From Wordnik.com. [Did ichthyosaurs fly? Probably not, no] Reference
Were ichthyosaurs really underwater fliers?. From Wordnik.com. [Did ichthyosaurs fly? Probably not, no] Reference
Locomotion and phylogeny of the ichthyosaurs. From Wordnik.com. [Did ichthyosaurs fly? Probably not, no] Reference
Eel-like swimming in the earliest ichthyosaurs. From Wordnik.com. [Did ichthyosaurs fly? Probably not, no] Reference
Did ichthyosaurs fly?. From Wordnik.com. [Did ichthyosaurs fly? Probably not, no] Reference
Biomechanics of ichthyosaurs. From Wordnik.com. [Did ichthyosaurs fly? Probably not, no] Reference
Finally, ichthyosaurs. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-07-01] Reference
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