What is "ichthyosaurs"

Usage examples of "ichthyosaurs".

When they do, they find that ichthyosaurs also died out about then, as did the last of the ammonites and many other marine groups.

Many other large and/or dramatic reptiles died out at the end of the Cretaceous, notably the plesiosaurs (famous as a possible 'explanation' of the mythical Loch Ness mon­ster), the ichthyosaurs (enormous fish-shaped predators, reptilian whales and dolphins), the pterosaurs (strange flying forms, of which the pterodactyls appear in all the dinosaur films and are labelled, wrongly, dinosaurs), and especially the mosasaurs .

Some were nearly as fish-like as ichthyosaurs, or dolphins, some were rather crocodile-like, some were fifty-foot predators like the great white shark, some were just a couple of feet long and fed on baby ammonites and other common molluscs.

The Ichthyosaurs seem to have been quite seagoing creatures, but the Plesiosaurs were a type of animal that has no cognate form to-day.

What was the point of the ichthyosaurs, dinosaurs, diplodochi, mastodons, and so on?

Millennia of gene surgery and breeding have developed a strain of ichthyosaurs very different from the parent stock.