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The Ichthyosaurus was a dolphin-like creature that was found in water. Differences between the dolphin today and the Ichthyosaurus would be a longer snout and smaller dorsal fin.
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What does the prefix ichthyo mean?
To do with fish, as in Icthyosaurus- Fish Lizard.
Does the ichthyosaurus have flippers?
Icthyosaurus looked like a fish. It had a flipper on each side, that would probably usually be called a fin.
What is the name of an extinct animal in the sea?
The Caribbean Monk Seal and the the Icthyosaurus are two modern sea creatures that are currently extinct but there have been many more in prehistoric times.
How did Ichthyosaurus die?
Icthyosaurus died out around 93 million years ago. The cause of their extinction is unknown, but could have been climate change or, less likely, competition from plesiosaurs and mosasaurs.
Why did the ichthyornis go extinct?
There are many theories to why the non avian dinosaurs including Tyrannosaurus rex, became extinct. So far, this is the most widely accepted one by paleontologists.65.5 million years ago, an asteroid with a diameter of 6 miles crashed into what is now the Yucatan Peninsula, creating the Chixculub crater. It threw so much dust into the atmosphere, that sunlight was blocked for months. Plants died without sunlight, and the herbivorous dinosaurs died without plants to eat. The carnivores soon died out, too, because their prey was gone.There is evidence that the Chixculub impact preceded the dinosaur extinction by hundreds of thousands of years, until another, possibly larger asteroid struck and eliminated the non avian dinosaurs once and for all.On top of it all, even without the asteroids, dinosaurs were already dealing with the negative affects of climate change.
