Giant mosasaurs, once thought to be strictly ocean-dwelling predators, may have spent their final chapter prowling freshwater ...

Until now, these terrifying giant aquatic reptiles with a bulky skull and powerful jaws were thought to be sea-dwelling predators, exclusively hunting in the oceans. Now, a 66-million-year-old ...

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 ...

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 ...

A mosasaur tooth has been found at one of the most famous Late Cretaceous fossil sites in the world. That means the famous marine predators adapted to a freshwater environment, and it seems they ...

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 ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The world was a drastically different place 90 million years ago, and Saturday on Good Morning Jacksonville, UNF faculty member Dr. Barry Albright gave viewers a glimpse into what ...

A fossil once hailed as evidence of a unique mosasaur species, Xenodens calminechari, may be a forgery, a new study claims. The 72-million-year-old fossil, described in 2021, includes a partial ...

GETTING VACCINATED. RESEARCHERS AT MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY JUST PLAYED A PART IN A MASSIVE PREHISTORIC DISCOVERY. GEOLOGISTS AT MSU FOUND THE LARGEST MOSASAUR BACKBONE EVER UNEARTHED IN THE STATE ...

The fossil of Xenodens calminechari, once touted as a revolutionary discovery, is now under scrutiny. This 72-million-year-old mosasaur fossil once believed to be a new species, was recently ...

(From left) Mariah Slovacek, the Paleo Lab collections manager at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science, Ron Tykoski, the Perot Museum’s director of paleontology and curator of vertebrate ...