A Feb. 21 Facebook video (direct link, archive link) claims to show footage of a Mosasaurus, a water-dwelling reptile that lived millions of years ago. "Extinct Animals Caught On Camera," reads the on ...
The cradle of paleontology—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 around ...
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 ...
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Not all of the show is set on land or in the air. The first episode explores the life and times of a girthy mosasaur (Mosasaurus hoffmanni), amicably nicknamed Hoff. The mosasaur is one of many ...
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BLACK HILLS, S.D. (AP) - When Frank Garcia was only eight-years-old, when he remembers going to the library in West Tampa, Florida, and opening up a book about dinosaurs. The first page he saw ...
Jormungandr, a 24-foot aquatic lizard that lived 80 million years ago, is found to be a transitional species between two well-known mosasaurs “If you put flippers on a Komodo dragon and made it really ...
SALT LAKE CITY — About 75 million years ago, a mosasaur — a dolphin-like, predatory, marine reptile that lived during the dinosaur age — bit another mosasaur so hard that it left its tooth behind, ...
In trailers for the new "Jurassic World" movie, a beast that resembles a mutated crocodile leaps 50 or so yards into the air to snap a great white shark, whole, from a dangling cable. It splashes down ...
The skull of Mosasaurus hoffmani. From Lingham-Soliar 1995. On my first trip to the Inversand marl pit in Sewell, New Jersey, I didn't find the wonderfully preserved Dryptosaurus skeleton I had been ...
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 ...