Ichthyosaur

As glaciers have melted in our warming world, they have exposed pieces of the past, from Stone Age artifacts to wartime relics. But the retreating Tyndall Glacier in Chile has uncovered something much older: a prehistoric graveyard of ichthyosaurs. Related: Newly Discovered Fossilized Raptor May Have Been an Arctic Resident Ichthyosaurs were marine reptiles, or “fish lizards,” that resembled modern-day […]