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Forgotten fossil found to be new species of ichthyosaur
Source: BBC
19 February 2015 Last updated at 00:07 GMT
Forgotten fossil found to be new species of ichthyosaur
By Victoria Gill
Science reporter, BBC News
A fossil stored in a Doncaster museum for 30 years and thought to be a plaster copy has turned out to be a new species of ancient reptile.
A young palaeontologist working with the University of Manchester found the fossil in 2008, in the collections of Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery.
He realised it was the 189-million-year-old remains of an ichthyosaur - an extinct marine reptile.
Further study confirmed it to be a previously unknown species.
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Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-31521719
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