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Ichthyosaur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ichthyosaurs are large marine reptiles. Ichthyosaurs belong to the order known as Ichthyosauria or Ichthyopterygia ('fish flippers' - a designation introduced by Sir Richard Owen in 1840, although the term is now used more for the parent clade of the Ichthyosauria).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichthyosaur
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Ichthyosaurs - The "Fish Lizards" - About
Ichthyosaurs ("fish lizards") ruled the oceans of the Triassic and Jurassic in the same way dinosaurs ruled the land. Here's a look at ichthyosaur behavior and physiology, along with profiles of genera ranging from Californosaurus to Utatsusaurus.
http://dinosaurs.about.com/od/typesofdinosaurs/a/ichthyosaurs.htm
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An Asteroid Didn't Wipe Out Ichthyosaurs - So What Did?
The ichthyosaurs thrived during the dinosaur age, but their gradual loss of territory and species may have led to their ultimate demise.
http://www.livescience.com/51629-ichthyosaur-extinction-explained.html
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Ichthyosaur - New World Encyclopedia
Ichthyosaurs were giant marine reptiles that resembled fish and dolphins, with an elongated, toothed snout like a crocodile.
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Ichthyosaur
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How the Ichthyosaur Got its Fins - AAAS
Reptiles first evolved on the land, but several groups later returned to the oceans, including the ichthyosaurs. The evolutionary origins of these top predators, some of them as large as today's sperm whales, have long been unclear.
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/11/how-ichthyosaur-got-its-fins
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BOOM Goes the Ichthyosaur? - Wired
What happened to prehistoric, dolphin-like marine reptiles when they died? Did they sink or they float until the gases from decomposition blew up their bodies and scattered their bones? Laelaps blogger Brian Switek tries to pop the bubble of an ancient mystery.
http://www.wired.com/2012/02/boom-goes-the-ichthyosaur
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Ichthyosaur Graveyard Discovered Beneath Glacier - Scientific American
Scientists found dozens of fossils of the marine reptile, measuring up to five meters long, as the melting glacier exposed new rock faces.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ichthyosaur-graveyard-discovered-beneath-glacier/
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Ichthyosaurs Fossil Found to be New Species - With Last Meal in its Stomach
Palaeontologist Dean Lomax discovered the fossil in the collection at Doncaster University where it had lain forgotten for 30 years after being found on the Jurassic Coast of Dorset.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2961595/Ichthyosaurs-taste-squid-Forgotten-museum-fossil-new-species-complete-meal-stomach.html
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Why an Inhthyosaur Looks Like a Dolphin - National Geographic
Mesozoic "fish lizards", ichthyosaurs were marine reptiles that independently became adapted to a life at sea around 200 million years before dolphins. Despite their distance from the oceanic mammals in both time and evolutionary history, though, ichthyosaurs look enough like dolphins for the two to be practically inseparable in textbooks.
http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2015/02/06/why-an-ichthyosaur-looks-like-a-dolphin/
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ichthyosaur - Fossil Reptile Group - Britannica
Ichthyosaur, any member of an extinct group of aquatic reptiles, most of which were very similar to porpoises in appearance and habits. These distant relatives of lizards and snakes (lepidosaurs) were the most highly specialized aquatic reptiles, but ichthyosaurs were not dinosaurs.
http://www.britannica.com/animal/ichthyosaur
