She found a very old bone!
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Paleontologist Dr. Dean Lomax is on the far left. Ruby Reynolds is next. Her dad, Justin Reynolds, is on her right. Fossil collector Paul De la Salle is on the far right. (Dr. Dean Lomax) -
This picture shows what a pair of these marine reptiles might have looked like. The official name of this creature is Ichthyotitan severnensis. (Gabriel Ugueto) -
These bones are from another kind of ichthyosaur. (AP/Lionel Cironneau) -
The giant jawbone Ruby Reynolds found is in the top two pictures. The bottom two pictures are of another ichthyosaur jawbone found in 2016. (PLOS) -
A man walks by a fossil of a ichthyosaur and unborn pups. This is a smaller kind of ichthyosaur than the kind that Ruby found. (AP/Michael Stravato)
Ruby and her dad went fossil hunting. They looked on the beach. Aha! They found a giant bone.
It was from a huge reptile. It died long ago. It lived in the sea.
Pray: Thank God for the delight of finding fossils from long ago.
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Ruby Reynolds was 11 when she and her dad found giant fossils in Somerset, England. Her dad reached out to paleontologists. They worked together to look for more bones. They found other sections. They pieced together a massive bone from a jaw. It was likely six feet long. The creature is a species of giant ichthyosaur. It lived in the dinosaur age. This sea reptile may have been 80 feet long. That is the length of two school buses!
“Praise the Lord from the Earth, you great sea creatures and all deeps.” (Psalm 148:7)
