In May 1941, the Royal College of Surgeons in London was bombed during a Nazi air raid.Among the specimens lost from its museum collection was a skeleton of an ichthyosaur an extinct marine reptile that appeared millions of years before dinosaurs laid their first footprints on prehistoric soil.But not just any ichthyosaur was lost.
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