Citing the large "gill basket" and other fossils attributed to the creature, paleontologist David Martill in 1986 dubbed Leedsichthys "the world's largest fish." He estimated that Leedsichthys ...

He created a replica from the phytosaur’s mold that he can cut apart, sculpt, and otherwise fix to look like natural, symmetrical bone and not a Triassic pancake. A staff member pours a fossil ...

Fossils show the huge plankton-eating creature called Leedsichthys lived 160 million years ago but was wiped out at the same time as the dinosaurs. Researchers from the University of Bristol ...

Scientists viewed Leedsichthys as an isolated example of a giant filter feeder in the oceans during the age of dinosaurs. But there was a gap in the fossil record between it and the first appearance ...

The findings about Leedsichthys, a huge, bony, plankton-eating fish, reveal an important missing piece in the evolutionary story of fish, mammals and ocean ecosystems, a release from the ...

It's thought it could be a completely new type of a certain fish called Leedsichthys problematicus. The bones are now being picked over at Fossils Galore Museum in March in Cambridgeshire.

The fish, a leedsichthys problematicus - or Big Meg as the fossil has been nicknamed - measures more than 15 metres in length. Experts believe it would have swum the Middle Jurassic seas 155 million ...

A fossil originally thought to be a plastic replica has been found to be a 189 million-year-old genuine relic...thanks to a Manchester dinosaur expert. The prehistoric sea animal ichthyosaur ...

Fossil fishes include the largest actinopterygian known, Leedsichthys problematica. It was a plankton feeder, straining food by passing water over its gills. The other fishes from this collection are ...