Medical scanner helps to unlock the mysteries of a giant prehistoric marine reptile

Tuesday, January 8, 2019 - 10:40 in Paleontology & Archaeology

A nearly meter-long skull of a giant fossil marine ichthyosaur found in a farmer's field more than 60 years ago has been studied for the first time. Using cutting-edge computerized tomography (CT) scanning technology, the research reveals new information including details of the rarely preserved braincase. The almost 200-million-year-old fossil, which was found in 1955 at Fell Mill Farm in Warwickshire, had never formally been studied prior to this research.

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