An ichthyosaur was pregnant with twins when she died, a fossil from Cretaceous Chile reveals. A CT scan of an ancient marine reptile that was entombed …
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Animals: Sea monster from Chile had 2 buns in the oven, rare fossil reveal
A CT scan of an ancient marine reptile that was entombed while pregnant has revealed a huge surprise — there were two fetuses inside her fossilized remains. "Twins! She has another baby," Judith Pardo-Pérez, a paleontologist at the University of Magallanes in Chile who first discovered the fossil in 2009, told Live Science, adding that she plans to release more details of this discovery in a forthcoming research paper.
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The ichthyosaur had evolved to chomp large prey. You wouldn't want to meet an ichthyosaur while taking a dip in the early Cretaceous seas. That goes …
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