Deep Down In The Abyss: The prehistoric 'Sea Monster' of the Mesozoic era
Introduction 'She sells seashells by the seashore'. This tongue twister was based on Mary Anning, a pioneering palaeontologist and fossil collector (Strauss, 2019). In the early 19th century, she was the first to discover what is now named Ichthyosaurus communis , meaning 'fish-lizard' (Mary-Claire Eylott, n.d). However, this genus was...