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It was considered to be a giant lizard. In October 1805, a newspaper article reported the find of two additional skeletons, one discovered at Weston by Jacob Wilkinson, the other, at the same village, by Reverend Peter Hawker. In 1807, the last specimen was described by the latter's cousin, Joseph Hawker. [9]
The Synodontidae or lizardfishes [note 1] are benthic (bottom-dwelling) marine and estuarine bony fishes that belong to the aulopiform fish order, a diverse group of marine ray-finned fish consisting of some 15 extant and several prehistoric families. They are found in tropical and subtropical marine waters throughout the world.
They are found circumglobally, in tropical and temperate latitudes (65° N to 40° S) at depths of 600–3,500 m in the aphotic zone, where water temperatures range between 4 and 3 °C. [6] The energy-poor ecosystem dictates low population densities. Along the Mid-Atlantic Bight, a density of 0–8 fish per 25 x 10 3 m 2 has been reported. [5]
A fossil jawbone found by a British girl and her father on a beach in Somerset, England belongs to a gigantic marine reptile dating to 202 million years ago that appears to have been among the ...
The inshore lizardfish (Synodus foetens) is a member of the family Synodontidae [1] found in the western Atlantic. According to the IUCN red list for endangered species, the inshore lizard fish "has most recently been assessed for the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species in 2013. Synodus foetens is listed as Least Concern" (Russell et al., 2015 ...
One of the coolest, most prehistoric-looking fish lives in Florida’s offshore waters of the Gulf of Mexico. It happens to be one of the best to eat but also one of the most elusive.
The Milton Lizard, also known as the Creature of Canip Creek, is a cryptid of the giant lizard variety. According to Coffey, the creature was first spotted in a Milton salvage yard, over in ...
Ichthyotitan is the only shastasaurid and giant ichthyosaur to be known from the Rhaetian, found in the fossil record 13 million years after their relatives. [5] The lineage is believed to have gone extinct immediately after in the Triassic–Jurassic extinction event , with later ichthyosaurs never reaching similar sizes until their extinction ...