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Ari Daniel

Largest-ever marine reptile found with help from an 11-year-old girl

This illustration depicts a washed-up Ichthyotitan severnensis carcass on the beach. (Sergey Krasovskiy)

In late May 2020, 11-year-old Ruby Reynolds and her father, Justin Reynolds, drove to Blue Anchor, a seaside village in Somerset in southwest England, to hunt for fossils along the beach.

Upon arriving, they found that somebody had left a piece of fossilized bone at the top of the beach. It was about four inches long, which was "bigger than any piece of bone I'd ever found before," says Justin. "So I was very excited and sat down to have a good look at it."

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