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 the apex predators of the oceans during the reign of the dinosaurs, but new research reveals dinosaurs weren't ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of mosasaur, a giant sea-dwelling lizard that dates back to the age of the dinosaurs, that stands out because of its unique, star-shaped teeth. It’s thought ...

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 ...

Sixty six million years ago, sea monsters really existed. They were mosasaurs, huge marine lizards that lived at the same time as the last dinosaurs. Growing up to 12 metres long, mosasaurs looked ...

"A mosasaur with shark teeth is a novel adaptation of mosasaurs so surprising that it looked like a fantastic creature out of an artist's imagination," says Dr. Nour-Eddine Jalil of the National ...

The giant mosasaur is called Thalassotitan atrox. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A giant mosasaur with teeth like a killer whale ...

The ancient seas of the Late Cretaceous period would’ve been scary places to swim. Between 66 million and 100 million years ago, the world’s waterways were chock-full of real-life sea monsters. Not ...

A never-before-seen mosasaur species first described in 2021 may be based on forged fossils, a new study suggests. Researchers are now calling for computed tomography (CT) scans of the remains to ...

A giant ocean predator that terrorised the seas during the time of the dinosaurs may have also hunted in rivers, a tooth fossil discovered in North Dakota suggests. The extinct lizard-like reptile ...

Late in the Cretaceous Period, when tyrannosaurs and their kin were the ruling predators on land, large swimming reptiles ruled the seas. Among them were the plesiosaurs and the mosasaurs. The suffix ...