News: First Amphibious "Sea Monster" found

Christie Dell’Amore wrote in the National Geographic a stunning discovery about a fossil of the newfound icthyosaur on November 5, 2014.

Cartorhynchus lenticorpus fossil unearthed in China shows that this dinosaur-era sea reptile was able to live in both land and water. Moreover, it’s the first amphibious “sea monster” ever found.

This icthyosaur is very important because it fills a crucial gap in the evolution of the “dolphin predators”. It lived on the Jurassic during about 200 million to 145 million years ago.

It physics is based from the fossil to have 20 metres in length, short snout and large flippers. It’s supposed to be flexible, with wrist to be able to crawl on land, stubby limbs and thick rib bones as have power to swim through waves. In fact, their flippers were so small that palaeontologists think that they weren’t a very fast amphibious.

Palaeontologists suspect that there could be more of this species out there and when they first saw it all of them were puzzled.

For more information go to: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/11/141105-ichthyosaurs-sea-monsters-dinosaurs-science-fossils/

I am extremely apasionated to archaeology and when I was reading this news I got astonished. It's awesome to find out new fossils in the world so that we can build the history again.
Can you imagine a creature with such a large body swiming or dragging around you? Of course I would be terrified but also plenty of pride.
I'd also love being in that investigation...