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An ancient fossil found by a girl and her father on a beach in England belongs to a creature that might have been among the largest animals ever on earth, researchers said in a recent study. That fossilized bone, called a cerangular, was from a reptile called an ichthyosaur that lived in the sea. 

研究人員在最近的一項研究中表示，一名女孩和她的父親在英國海灘上發(fā)現(xiàn)了一塊古代化石，它屬于一種可能是地球上有史以來最大的動物之一的生物。這塊化石骨頭被稱為“cerangular”，來自一種生活在海洋中的爬行動物，叫做魚龍。

Based on its size, compared to the same bone in closely related ichthyosaurs, the researchers estimated that the creature was between 22 and 26 meters long. They named it Ikthyotitan severnensis, which would make it possibly the largest known marine reptile. Its size would be close to the largest whale alive today, the blue whale. Considered the largest animal ever to have lived, it can reach about 30 meters in length. Marine reptiles lived in the world's oceans at the same time that dinosaurs lived on the land. 

根據(jù)它的大小，與近親魚龍的同塊骨頭相比，研究人員估計這種生物的長度在 22 到 26 米之間。他們把它命名為 Ikthyotitan severnensis，這意味著它可能是已知最大的海洋爬行動物。它的體型接近現(xiàn)存最大的鯨魚——藍鯨。它被認為是有史以來最大的動物，長度可達約 30 米。海洋爬行動物和恐龍生活在陸地上的同時，也生活在世界海洋中。

Ikthyosaurs disappeared 90 million years ago. They came in several sizes, the creatures ate fish and other sea animals. Ictheotitan, however, is known only from two jawbones. The jaw forms the lower part of the mouth. Ruby Reynolds and her father, Justin Reynolds, found one of the bones in 2020 at Blue Anchor in Somerset. The other bone is from a different Exeotitan individual found in 2016 along the Somerset coast at Lilstuck. Dean Lomax was the lead writer of the study, published recently in Plus One. 

魚龍在 9000 萬年前消失了。它們有幾種大小，以魚和其他海洋動物為食。然而，人們只知道 Ikthyotitan 有兩塊頜骨。頜骨構成了嘴的下部。2020 年，Ruby Reynolds 和她的父親 Justin Reynolds 在薩默塞特郡的 Blue Anchor 發(fā)現(xiàn)了其中一塊骨頭。另一塊骨頭來自 2016 年在薩默塞特郡利爾斯塔克海岸發(fā)現(xiàn)的另一個 Exeotitan 個體。Dean Lomax 是這項研究的主要作者，該研究最近發(fā)表在 Plus One 上。

Lomax said, "It is quite remarkable to think that gigantic, blue whale-sized ichthyosaurs were swimming in the oceans around the time that dinosaurs were walking on land in what is now the UK." During the Triassic period, the Triassic period describes a time over 200 million years ago. Ruby Reynolds was 11 at the time she and her father discovered the fossil surangular bone on the beach.

Lomax 說：“想想看，巨大的藍鯨大小的魚龍在恐龍在現(xiàn)在的英國陸地上行走的時候在海洋中游泳，這真是太神奇了。”在三疊紀時期，三疊紀描述的是2億多年前的一個時期。Ruby Reynolds和她的父親在海灘上發(fā)現(xiàn)了這塊上棱骨化石時，她才 11 歲。

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