Ichthyosaurs: The 250-Million-Year-Old Dolphin-Like Reptiles of the Deep
They looked like sleek torpedoes carved from shadow and muscle, yet these ocean hunters were not fish and not mammals, but reptiles that mastered the seas long before whales even existed. For about 160 million years, ichthyosaurs raced through ancient oceans, evolving streamlined bodies and enormous eyes that cut through dim light like headlights in ...
