When a Nazi bomb obliterated the collections of a London museum during World War II, many thought one fossil had been lost to science.
But when a Nazi bomb obliterated the collections of a London museum during World War II, the fossil was lost to science.
Not anymore: Researchers recently uncovered two previously unknown casts of the famous fossil more than 75 years after the original’s destruction.the rediscovery in Royal Society Open Science. It’s a tale of historic hide-and-seek and a specimen with some serious scientific pedigree. In the early 19th century, ichthyosaur fever helped establish the field of paleontology and sparked public interest in fossils.
Scientists still study ichthyosaurs, marine reptiles that swam in oceans between about 250 million and 90 million years ago. But more information may be hiding in plain sight in museum collections, the researchers suggest. “This discovery demonstrates the necessity to carefully preserve undetermined and casted material in a natural history collection,” Daniela Schwarz, the scientific head of the Museum of Natural History Berlin’s fossil reptiles department, said in a
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