Mosasaurs were some of the most fearsome apex predators to ever stalk the Cretaceous era’s oceans. And according to Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) geologist James Starnes, a ...

Geologists recently discovered the fossil of a Cretaceous-era mosasaur vertebra near Starkville, Mississippi. The experts believe the apex predator of the ancient seas could have weighed 20,000 pounds ...

Mosasaurs were the apex predators of the oceans during the reign of the dinosaurs, but new research reveals dinosaurs weren't ...

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.

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 ...

Giant mosasaurs, once thought to be strictly ocean-dwelling predators, may have spent their final chapter prowling freshwater rivers alongside dinosaurs and crocodiles. A massive tooth found in North ...

This video explores how Mosasaurus evolved into a marine predator so dominant that it effectively “broke the game” of prehistoric ocean life. Scientists highlight the creature’s immense size, ...

A 66-million-year-old tooth discovered in North Dakota, USA, suggests that some mosasaurs — extinct lizard-like reptiles that could grow up to 12 metres long — may have hunted in rivers as well as ...

A sharp-eyed South Carolina college student was on a school trip when she made an “extraordinary” discovery. “‘I think I found something BIG!’” Monika ...

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 ...