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One hundred and fifty-two million years old, the Ichthyosaurus, whose bones were uncovered in a hard sedimentary rock near the village of Lodai in Kutch, has been causing waves amongst palaeontologists.
The Ichthyosaurus of Kutch has even got a family name, Ophthalmosauridae, indicating a creature with eye sockets as large as lorry headlights.
It’s not clear from Prasad’s pictures of the creature how large the eyes of the Kutch Ichthyosaurus might have been since part of its head has been lost.
According to some sources, the last such creature was found off the Somerset coast of England in the 1990s and named Ichthyosaurus somersetensis.
One wonders what the latest find will be named? Ichthyosaurus kutch-kutchotthaisensis? Or maybe Ichthyosaurus guntupallisensis?
Or how closely connected we all are by our myths and dity.
Surfacing as the oceans begin to rise, the Ichthyosaurus of Kutch lives again.