Essentially, before this ichthyosaur met its demise, it seems to have snatched a low-flying reptile right out of the sky. As the first known instance of a marine reptile preying on a flying reptile, it’s a big deal. “The only predator known from the Eromanga Sea capable of producing injuries of this magnitude is the giant pliosaur Kronosaurus queenslandicus,” White explained. Measuring more than 40-feet long, it was also an apex predator of its day, and seems to have made at least a partial meal of the ichthyosaur. It just goes to show: There’s always a bigger reptile in the prehistoric seas.