
‘Sword Dragon’ ichthyosaur had enormous eyes and a lethal snout
A reconstruction of what the Xiphodracon may have looked like Bob Nicholls Meet the “Sword Dragon”, a newly-named species of ichthyosaur – predatory prehistoric reptiles that dominated the oceans while dinosaurs ruled the land. The beautifully-preserved fossilised skeleton was found on the UK’s Jurassic Coast near an area called Golden Cap back in 2001, and…