The Largest Marine Animals Poem by Richard Spisak

The Largest Marine Animal
@rwspisak

The largest animal that ever lived
If you honesty don't know it
You are really quite forgived

Tis one the ichthyosaurs, you must have guessed, you probably heard about its three story nest.

Significant among the predators of the
Mesozoic era, if I told you twice, it couldn't be clearer.

About Two Hundred and Fifty nine, million years ago, long before the ice age flowed (?) During the end of the Triassic Period, amongst the gigantic fauna, it held a place quite superior.

Another curious wrinkle in the ichthyosaurs tale, their adaptation in many ways was similar to the whale.
They were never truly dinosaurs, they evolved from land bound critters that returned to the sea! Later the same path of evolution that whales chose, Glory be!

And mimicking mammals their young were live born, unlike true dinosaurs, the egg man they would spurn.

In Sommerset, at Blue Anchor, in the United Kingdom, they were first found
The fragmented fossil emerged from the ground.

The intact animal was ranged at 82'
So if he was caught in your fishing nets you'd be surely getting wet! That's quite neat!

the sea monster Ichthyotitan severnensis, he was really just too big to fit in any parenthesis.

This "giant lizard fish of the Severn",
after the Severn Estuary in which it was born. Some fossilized corprolite was found near by, they couldn't be sure it was his, I won't lie!

Ichthyosaurs persisted into the Cenomanian Age, the truth be told, for fashionable lizards. They were quite the popular rage!

The Cenomanian Age 100 million to 93 million years ago, was quite tropical of course, with very little snow

Amid volcanic upheaval and tsunamis and such, it's not surprising at this distance we might have lost touch.