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Super-carnivorous ichthyosaur discovered

You wouldn’t want to meet an ichthyosaur while taking a dip in the early Cretaceous seas. That goes double for Kyhytysuka sachicarum: this newly identified, 130-million-year-old marine reptile is now known from fossils in central Colombia and had larger, more knife-like teeth

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