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 […]

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 […]