Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “This is a true, true sea monster,” Starnes recently told the local news outlet Hattiesburg American. “This [was] bigger than most ...

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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When phosphate miners in Morocco accidentally uncovered a fossil in 2021, it seemed too good to be true. Nick Longrich, a ...

A fossil once hailed as evidence of a unique mosasaur species, Xenodens calminechari, may be a forgery, a new study claims. The 72-million-year-old fossil, described in 2021, includes a partial ...

GETTING VACCINATED. RESEARCHERS AT MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY JUST PLAYED A PART IN A MASSIVE PREHISTORIC DISCOVERY. GEOLOGISTS AT MSU FOUND THE LARGEST MOSASAUR BACKBONE EVER UNEARTHED IN THE STATE ...

The fossil of Xenodens calminechari, once touted as a revolutionary discovery, is now under scrutiny. This 72-million-year-old mosasaur fossil once believed to be a new species, was recently ...

The Hell Creek Mosasaur, reconstruction by Christopher DiPiazza. Please note that more images and a short video are available at this link: https://springernature-my ...

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When Frank Garcia was only 8, he remembers going to the library in West Tampa, Fla., and opening up a book about dinosaurs. The first page he saw featured a depiction of the massive ancient marine ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – A College of Charleston student found the skeleton of a large sea lizard, and the condition of the fossil is considered to be “extraordinary.” In May, rising senior and ...