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Sea Dragons: The Dominant Predators of the Prehistoric Oceans
"Sea dragons, scientifically known as ichthyosaurs, were a highly successful lineage of marine reptiles that dominated Earth’s oceans for over 150 million years. Emerging in the Early Triassic and vanishing in the Late Cretaceous, these apex predators evolved from land-dwelling ancestors into streamlined, dolphin-like hunters, reaching lengths of up to 25 meters. The Evolutionary Ascent of the Ichthyosauria The story of the "sea dragons" begins approximately 250 million years ago, in the wake of the Permian-Triassic extinction event, the most devastating mass extinction in Earth's history. While most life struggled to recover, the ancestors of..."
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