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Animal Enigmas

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The Legend of the Ichthyosaur

Paleontology was in its infancy at the time. Mary and her brother would dig out, carefully clean, and sell fossils to gentlemen scientists visiting the coast. They found this gigantic skull over a meter long with a massive, what we call, scholarotic ring inside the eye socket of an ichthyosaur. Ichthyosaur's lived entirely in the ocean whilst the dinosaurs were walking on land.

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