The Marine Reptile Bigger Than A Blue Whale #paleontology #seamonster

In 2018, Dean Lomax and colleagues described two massive ichthyosaurs from the Late Triassic. Paper link: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0194742

Art: Gabriel Ugueto; Hodaru Nundu; Julian Johnson-Mortimer; Rudolf Hima;

Darius Nau Shastasaurus: https://twitter.com/darius_nau/status/1688951203395252225?s=20

In 2020, Lomax stated that the animal the Aust bone belonged to would be at least thirty meters long. His coauthor, Paul de la Salle, clarified that to 35 meters in 2022.

2020 statement: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/344675187750469642/1159195097817165865/image.png?ex=65302390&is=651dae90&hm=9683c9002eca92c9b910253684c90dd484227c0db0fa6cd189ab19a8a7945ea4&

2022 statement: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/344675187750469642/1159195098106560533/image.png?ex=65302390&is=651dae90&hm=fd695b1d8446254d01e602006b133f3dfd902b8177769ba7a929311f0e548524&