At https://dailygalaxy.com/2026/10/a-couple-discovers-33-foot-reptile-fossil/ … s Belgian couple spotted dark colouration in sandstone on a Dorset beach. It turned out to be a 10 m long fossil going back 175 million years. It is now on display in Bridport Museum.
It is thought to belong to the early Jurassic era – but how early was that? It is an Ichthyosaur and they were predatory. Milton Keynes museum has one of them on the wall of the library, salvaged from a lake – embedded in local geology. It is described as a reptile rather than a fish – but looks like something related to a dolphin. In order to find itself fossilised inside sandstone there must have been some kind of environmental crisis going on. There was supposed to have been massive volcanic outbursts that depleted oxygen levels in the oceans. Obviously, it could be part of another impact scenario – but nobody in mainstream wants to address such an idea. Too many impacts in the fossil record would cause some embarrassing questions from Joe Public. On the geological column it occurred 9 million years after the volcanic eruptions. Uniformitarian dating of sediments is involved. Similarities do seem to exist with the Chicxulub asteroid at the end of the Cretaceous – creating large amounts of sediment which later condensed into rock formations. Palaeontologists didn’t think it was extraordinary for ichthyosaurs to have survived for 9 million years after the oxygen depletion. What is that telling us?
At https://dailygalaxy.com/2026/10/ancient-armored-creature-discovered-china/ … this one goes back 237 millions years ago and was found in China. Two well preserved fossils reveal a heavily armoured creature – but it was an amphibian, apparently. So it is thought – for the moment. They were discovered by Chinese farmers in the north of the country, within rocks – part of the Guizhou Triassic assemblage. It is described as Late Triassic and probably represents animals killed at the end of the Triassic in a massive extinction event [again with no cause that is acceptable to mainstream palaeontologists]. Ichthyosaurs, turtles, and crinoids were part of the fauna and it is assumed the ocean covered this part of China at this time. Was the amphibian adapted to salt water or was the so called watery grave as a result of a giant tsunami wave. The two fossils were almost intact – including delicate small bones on their limbs. They may have lived near where they were found, we are told, but this would entail a quick burial. Perhaps. They could not have been washed too far or they would have become disassembled.