
Fossils in germany reveal a Jurassic sea monster with a swordfish snout
An international research team from Switzerland and Germany, led by Gaël Spicher (JURASSICA Museum, Porrentruy, Switzerland), has described a new ichthyosaur species based on fossils curated at the Urwelt-Museum Oberfranken (Bayreuth, Germany). The study was published in Museum für Naturkunde Berlin’s open-access journal Fossil Record. The new species was named Eurhinosaurus mistelgauensis, in reference to…