List of the most interesting finds in the fossils

1. 1. The female Ichthyosaurs gives birth on land

The moment of birth can be quite dangerous, and there are many fossils of unfortunate mothers who died in childbirth. Sometimes these fossils can tell a lot about the life of these creatures from birth to death. For example, many fossils of Ichthyosaurs mothers and their babies have been found immediately after birth. Most of them show that the cubs crawled out of the mother, tail first, which suggests that they were born in the sea. However, one of the first Ichthyosaurs, living 250 million years ago, was discovered when it gave birth to babies that hatched head first. Since head birth is found only in terrestrial animals, this suggests that the first Ichthyosaurs crawled out onto land to give birth to offspring. Subsequently, Ichthyosaurs turned into creatures that lived exclusively in water.