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University of Bonn

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200 million year old deposits of the precursor of the Mediterranean Sea have been preserved in the Swiss High Alps. Whale-sized ichthyosaurs came from the open sea only occasionally into shallower water.

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© Jeannette Rüegg/Heinz Furrer, University of Zurich

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