Exciting news about the identification of a new species of Ichthyosaur – Dearcmhara shawcrossi – unique to Scotland, and identified from middle Jurassic rocks in the Isle of Skye. A team lead by Steve Brusatte, a paleontologist at the University of Edinburgh, discovered the specimen in bones collected on Skye in 1959.
The reconstruction above by the artist Todd Marshall, and provided by the PalAlba group, shows what the 4-metre long ichthyosaur might have looked like!