In 1780, before the word “paleontology” had even been coined, chalk miners in the Netherlands uncovered a strange skull ... Conybeare dubbed the creature Mosasaurus, a seagoing relative ...

A Mosasaur. Contradictions in celebrated 'Sea Monster' skull point to possible fossil ... Mosasaurs were large marine lizards and one of the ocean's top predators during the Cretaceous period ...

2024 Mosasaurs were large marine lizards and one of the oceans’ top predators during the Cretaceous period (145.5 million to 66 million years ago), with some individuals reaching up to 56 feet ...

The collected bones include most of a skull—a lower jaw ... according to Longrich. Like other mosasaurs, it was probably a "top predator" during its day, although perhaps not at the very ...

KAINAN, Wakayama Prefecture--A mosasaur fossil found in the mountains ... The front and rear flippers are larger than the skull, suggesting that the new species swam using its leg fins, similar ...