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LONDON The first complete ichthyosaur skeleton, believed to have been found by the fossil hunter Mary Anning, was thought to have been lost forever when German bombs rained down on London in World War II.But two plaster casts of the distinctive dolphin-like reptile have now been unearthed, even though there was no record of them ever being made.Researchers Dean Lomax, from
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"The specimen was the first skeleton of an extinct marine reptile in the scientific literature and the most complete ichthyosaur skeleton known at the time," researchers wrote in paper.