Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>Discovery of rare new <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/fossil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fossil</span></a> sheds light on <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/NewZealand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewZealand</span></a>'s extinct dolphin-like reptiles <a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-01-discovery-rare-fossil-zealand-extinct.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2025-01-discover</span><span class="invisible">y-rare-fossil-zealand-extinct.html</span></a></p><p>A platypterygiid <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/ichthyosaur" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ichthyosaur</span></a> from the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Cenomanian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cenomanian</span></a> of central New Zealand <a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02724634.2024.2408391" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10</span><span class="invisible">80/02724634.2024.2408391</span></a></p><p>"This <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/discovery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>discovery</span></a> is particularly exciting because the specimen is about 98 million years old. This is about four million years before the final <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/extinction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>extinction</span></a> of <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/ichthyosaurs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ichthyosaurs</span></a>, which makes it one of the youngest semi-complete ichthyosaur skeletons known."</p>