Dinosaur found in my home town!!

[Timelord79 (he/him)]

Now this is cool.

http://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/niede...ger-findet-Dinoskelett,saurierknochen102.html

Sorry for the article in German, the gist is:

An 11 year old found a Ichthyosaurus about 100m off from a where the local natural history museum was digging for fossils.

This is the 4th dino found in this area.


The bone structure is 35% complete.

Here is the dinosaur in question:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichthyosaurus

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Is this the one with the best example of the feather pattern?

 

[Timelord79 (he/him)]

No. The name literally means fish lizard. It was not too dissimilar to dolphins from what I can see. Even gave birth to live offspring, so it sounds like it is closer related to mammals than birds.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Ah OK. I was remembering a story about a pristine Archaeopteryx fossil that had been found.