Mosasaurs mostly stuck to ocean habitats, but evidence now suggests they sometime ventured elsewhere. A tooth recently found in the famous Hell Creek formation in Montana suggests otherwise. According ...

Mosasaurs were a diverse group of marine lizards which, much like whales and other cetaceans, adapted to life in the oceans. And though we’ve been digging them up for 200 years now, new species are ...

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

A previously unknown "formidable" sea predator that lived about 90 million years ago, during the age of the dinosaurs, has been discovered in Mexico. The newly identified species, named Yaguarasaurus ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...