MORE information following the discovery of an embryo inside a 200 million-year-old sea dinosaur discovered near Watchet has been revealed.
The Ichthyosaurus Somersetensis was found near Doniford Bay during the 1990s but ended up in the collections of the Lower Saxony State Museum in Hanover, Germany.
Scientists from the University of Manchester and palaeontologists in Germany conducted research this year to find out more about the fossil and learned the 3.5m pregnant dinosaur lived during the early Jurassic period.
Dean Lomax, from the University of Manchester, said: “This specimen provides new insights into the size range of the species but also records only the third example of an Ichthyosaurus known with an embryo.
“That’s special.”
The embryo was less than 7cm long, Mr Lomax said.
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