“If you put flippers on a Komodo dragon and made it really big, that’s what it would have looked like,” study co-author and Richard Gilder Graduate School PhD student Amelia Zietlow, said in a ...

Giant reptiles, masters of the oceans more than 66 million years ago, swimming in rivers? A recent discovery in North America ...

Mosasaurs were a diverse group of marine lizards which, much like whales and other cetaceans, adapted to life in the oceans. And though we’ve been digging them up for 200 years now, new species are ...

At the end of the Cretaceous Period, a type of giant reptile called mosasaurs occupied and dominated oceanic food webs. Mosasaurs had long bodies and were related to both snakes and monitor lizards.

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The giant mosasaur is called Thalassotitan atrox. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A giant mosasaur with teeth like a killer whale ...

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A Mississippi paleontologist made a chance discovery of the skull of a mosasaur and scientists recently removed a large block of hard clay containing the skull along with other bones that were ...

Fossils of a giant killer mosasaur have been discovered, along with the fossilized remains of its prey. At the end of the Cretaceous period, 66 million years ago, sea monsters really existed. While ...

A 5-foot-wide replica of a fossilized protostega, a Cretaceous-era sea turtle, swims away from a 45-foot-long replica of a fossilized mosasaur in the atrium of the new Earth, Energy and Environment ...

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