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An 11-year-old girl’s fossil finds on Somerset’s Blue Anchor coast helped identify Ichthyotitan severnensis, an 82-foot ichthyosaur—the largest known marine reptile of the Triassic—confirmed by a PLOS ONE study and signaling exciting new insights into ancient oceans.
On a Somerset beach in 2020, 11-year-old Ruby Reynolds and her father found jawbone fragments that led scientists to identify Ichthyotitan severnensis, a giant ichthyosaur potentially about 82 feet long. Further fossils confirmed a whale-sized marine reptile from the Triassic, offering insights into ancient oceans and showing how a shoreline discovery can rewrite natural history.