An article published in the journal “Science” reports the study of the fossil remains of an ichthyosaur whose almost complete skeleton includes some sort of extras in the form of the fossil remains of another reptile, a thalattosaur of the species Xinpusaurus xingyiensis, in its stomach. A team of researchers examined these fossils discovered in China and dating back to the Triassic period attributing them to a Guizhouichthyosaurus tangae, a species belonging to the group of ichthyosaurs. There are arguments among paleontologists that they could be apex predators in their ecosystems, and the fact that an ichthyosaur devoured an animal as large as a thalattosaur is considered evidence that at least that species was indeed an apex predator.