In Germany, have identified a previously unknown form of ichthyosaurs

Paleontologists from the Lower Saxony identified a new type of ichthyosaurs, analyzing remains found near the town of Kremling in 2005.

As the tape. ru referring to the Welt, scientists from different countries all the while studying the find, the results of the study were published January 3 in the journal PloS ONE.
A new species of ichthyosaurs was named Acamptonectes densus ( Latin for ... Scientists have named so because the animal is too closely spaced vertebrae, which did not allow him to turn his head. Lizard was about three meters in length, his jaws were equipped with sharp teeth. In appearance he resembled modern dolphins. In 2013 the skeleton will become part of the museum exhibition in Braunschweig.
Until then, scientists have assumed that the ichthyosaurs became extinct in the late Jurassic period, but new studies have put this view into question, according to Director Natural History Museum in Braunschweig Ulrich Yoger. It is in this museum were the remains of the study.
The skeleton was found during road construction. According to paleontologists, it is about 130 million years. Thus, the latest findings indicate that ichthyosaurs had lived in the seas in the early Cretaceous. Scientists determined the age of the remains of a skeleton stuck in a tooth that belonged to the representative species of sharks living in the Cretaceous period. Perhaps the animal is killed by a predatory fish.