An article published in the magazine “Acta Palaeontologica Polonica” describes the identification of a specimen of Ichthyosaurus somersetensis that was found to be a pregnant female. Paleontologists Dean Lomax of the British University of Manchester and Sven Sachs of the German Naturkundemuseum Bielefeld studied this almost 3.5-meter (11 feet) long ichthyosaur that was discovered in Somerset in the 1990s, where it lived about 200 million years ago then ended up in the collection of the Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum in Saxony, forgotten until recently.