Paleontologists found the fossils after nearly 190 years of searching.
Video: Instituto Antártico Chileno The remains of the earliest known ‘fish-lizard’ from the Age of Dinosaurs have been found on a remote Arctic island.
Research conducted with The Museum of Evolution at Uppsala University helped identify the bony fish and ‘crocodile-like’ amphibian bones, together with its 11 articulated tail vertebrae. The remains were found in limestone boulders during a 2014 expedition to Flower’s valley along the southern shore of Ice Fjord in western Spitsbergen. They were later shipped back to the Natural History Museum at the University of Oslo for future study. Fossil-bearing rocks on Spitsbergen that produce the earliest ichthyosaur remains.
Geochemical testing of the surrounding rock confirmed the age of the fossils at approximately two million years. Computed tomography image and cross-section showing internal bone structure of vertebrae from the earliest ichthyosaur.
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