Look into the jaws of a Mosasaurus and you will gaze into a nightmare. The seagoing lizard’s curved teeth stand in a line that point backwards to the throat, an extra set of piercing teeth on the roof ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of mosasaur, large, carnivorous aquatic lizards that lived during the late Cretaceous. With 'transitional' traits that place it between two well-known ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Paleontologists in North Dakota have discovered new species of ...

Ancient Antarctic Sea Monster May Have Laid This Football-Size Egg. A 68 million-year-old egg the size of a football — the ...

Along with the megalodon shark, the mosasaur was likely one of the most ferocious prehistoric marine predators. A previously unknown species of the reptile has now been classified, and it sported a ...

A routine dig in northeastern North Dakota may have unearthed an entirely new species of ancient marine reptile that roamed underwater while dinosaurs walked the earth. Paleontologists with the North ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of mosasaur, a giant sea-dwelling lizard that dates back to the age of the dinosaurs, that stands out because of its unique, star-shaped teeth. It’s thought ...

For a little while, Mosasaurus maximus was my labmate. The sharp-toothed marine predator was an inoffensive neighbor, though – no doubt because only the fossilized bones, coated in beeswax to stop the ...

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 ...

"Its long snout reflects that this mosasaur was likely adapted to a specific form of predation, or niche partitioning, within this larger ecosystem." Strong explained there is evidence that each ...

“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 ...