Paleontologists discovered a 94-million-year-old mosasaur fossil, Sarabosaurus dahli, in southern Utah shale. This early sea ...

Mosasaur evolution represents one of the most striking examples of evolutionary innovation among marine reptiles. Emerging in the mid-Cretaceous, these marine squamates rapidly diversified to occupy a ...

An enormous sea snake from Norse legend that was fathered by the trickster god Loki and grew big enough to circle the globe is now the namesake for a different type of “monster” — a newly discovered ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mosasaurs, extinct marine reptiles that dominated Earth's oceans during the Late Cretaceous period, have fascinated scientists ...

Mosasaurs are extinct marine lizards, spectacular examples of which were first discovered in 1766 near Maastricht in the Netherlands, fueling the rise of the field of vertebrate palaeontology (the ...

Geologists have uncovered the fossil of a mosasaur, an ancient aquatic predator, in Mississippi. Often referred to as a “sea dragon” due to its imposing size and fearsome appearance, this prehistoric ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — In a groundbreaking discovery, a research team led by a UNF professor and the Bureau of Land Management has unveiled new evolutionary insights following the remarkable find of a ...

A 94-million-year-old fossil found in Utah is offering new insight to the evolution of an ancient sea-dwelling reptile. Illustration from Utah’s Bureau of Land Management A 94-million-year-old fossil ...

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