Paleontologists have uncovered the dramatic fossilized bones of a 30-foot underwater lizard in Texas. Excavations of the mosasaur's fossilized oversized skull, lower jawbones and vertebrae reportedly ...

A previously unknown "formidable" sea predator that lived about 90 million years ago, during the age of the dinosaurs, has been discovered in Mexico. The newly identified species, named Yaguarasaurus ...

Researchers are calling for CT scans to confirm the authenticity of a Cretaceous period fossil that led to the identification of a new mosasaur species. Reading time 3 minutes In 2021, scientists ...

Researchers at the University of Cincinnati identified a new species of mosasaur — an 18-foot-long fish-eating monster that lived 80 million years ago. UC assistant professor-educator Takuya Konishi ...

The ancient seas of the Late Cretaceous period would’ve been scary places to swim. Between 66 million and 100 million years ago, the world’s waterways were chock-full of real-life sea monsters. Not ...

Mosasaurs, giant marine reptiles that existed more than 66 million years ago, lived not only in the sea but also in rivers. This is shown by new research based on analyses of a mosasaur tooth found in ...

A mosasaur is not a dinosaur. You know what else? That monster with the square head played by Boris Karloff, he is not Frankenstein. He was created by a doctor named Frankenstein. It doesn't really ...

Jormungandr, a 24-foot aquatic lizard that lived 80 million years ago, is found to be a transitional species between two well-known mosasaurs “If you put flippers on a Komodo dragon and made it really ...

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Shortly before a mass extinction ended the Age of Dinosaurs, a reptilian, barracuda-like carnivore with a mouth like a box cutter patrolled the warm seas that once covered swaths of what is now North ...

Researchers have identified a new species of mosasaur -- an 18-foot-long fish-eating monster that lived 80 million years ago. Researchers at the University of Cincinnati identified a new species of ...