What Was Unusual About This Ichthyosaur Graveyard?

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This is the second time this year we've met to talk about ichthyosaurs. These are extinct marine reptiles that live contemporaneously with dinosaurs but weren't dinosaurs. In Nevada, scientists have found seven of these fossils in very, very close proximity. And it's had scientists stumped for quite a long time, right? Why are there so many of them? I think maybe up to 100, I think, have been found so far. It turns out they were getting together for an adult party.

In this episode of the Nature Podcast, we catch up on some science stories from the holiday period by diving into the Nature Briefing.

We’ll hear: how Brazil’s President Lula has started to make good on his pro-environment promises; a new theory for why giant ichthyosaurs congregated in one place; how glass frogs hide their blood; about a new statue honouring Henrietta Lacks; and why T. rex might have cooed like a dove.

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