Via Afarensis, Pregnant Prehistoric Fossil Offers Clues To Past from Science Daily covers the Ping Pong Ichthyosaur I’ve written about earlier. Nothing that much new from what was covered by sources in my other post, but the article does have a picture of the fossilized embryos worth checking out.

Pregnant prehistoric fossil discovered from United Press International covers a new species named “Ping Pong Ichthyosaur” for the spot where the fossils were stored for 25 years — under a ping pong table!
The fossils were collected decades ago in Canada’s Northwest Territories and somehow ended up stored under a ping pong table in the science […]

Categorizing universal phenotypes from George Dvorsky raises the interesting issue of ichthyosaurs as occupying the role of dolphin’s in today’s animal world.
Ichthyosaurs were reptiles; dolphins are mammals. They might look similar, but they were completely different creatures. Still, Dvorsky argues that were the same in terms of the role they played:
In its day [the ichthyosaur] […]

From Palaonotology, this new paper covers how at least one new genus and species of ichthyosaurs has been discovered from deposits of the Loon River Formation at Hay River, Northwest Territories, Canada.
Cretaceous ichthyosaurs, from what I understand, have all been part of the Platypterygius genus. The new fossils don’t fit that genus, and so […]

Daren Naish in Life in the Oxford Clay sea writes about the ancient creatures that can be found in the mudrock formation that covers much of Britain and northern France — ichthyosaurs among them. Well, one type — Ophthalmosaurus– the name coming from its large eyes.

Since there hasn’t been any ichthyosaur news so far this week, I thought I’d review another general resource about these dinosaur dolphins.
This time, it’s the Wikipedia page about them. It starts out explaining that Ichthyosaur comes from the Greek words fish and lizard. You get a general description about them, learning things like they gave […]

I finally got an actual picture of an ichthyosaur up on the blog in the logo. Dann Pigdon gave me permission to use an illustration he did. If you’re looking for dinosaur pictures in general, Dann has a great collection of his work over at Dann’s Dinosaurs.