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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mosasaurs mostly stuck to ocean habitats, but evidence now suggests they sometime ventured elsewhere. A tooth recently found in ...

A fossilized ancient egg discovered in Antarctica nearly a decade ago has finally been identified, shedding new light on ...

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 ...

Maximilian Scott, a volunteer at The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University and recent Masters degree graduate from the University of Manitoba, will discuss “The social ecology of mosasaurs ...

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 ...

Shortly before a mass extinction ended the Age of Dinosaurs, a reptilian, barracuda-like carnivore with a mouth like a box cutter patrolled the warm seas that once covered swaths of what is now North ...

A Mississippi paleontologist made a chance discovery of the skull of a mosasaur and scientists recently removed a large block of hard clay containing the skull along with other bones that were ...

The cradle of palaeontology – the study of fossil remains of animals and plants – lies in the Maastricht limestones, where the first Mosasaurus was discovered in 1766. The Dutch-Belgian border area ...

Paleontologists have uncovered the dramatic fossilized bones of a 30-foot underwater lizard in Texas. Excavations of the mosasaur's fossilized oversized skull, lower jawbones and vertebrae reportedly ...

An artist imagines what Globidens alabamaensis would have looked like when present-day Texas was still submerged. Nathan Dehaut, Journal of Paleontological Sciences Roughly 80 million years ago, a ...