For a little while, Mosasaurus maximus was my labmate. The sharp-toothed marine predator was an inoffensive neighbor, though – no doubt because only the fossilized bones, coated in beeswax to stop the ...

Paleontologists discovered a 94-million-year-old mosasaur fossil, Sarabosaurus dahli, in southern Utah shale. This early sea ...

Meet Mosasaurus, a gigantic carnivore that swam seas around the globe 80 million to 66 million years ago. On June 12, you can see one doing its best Shamu impression in Jurassic World. Few people on ...

At the end of the Cretaceous Period, a type of giant reptile called mosasaurs occupied and dominated oceanic food webs. Mosasaurs had long bodies and were related to both snakes and monitor lizards.

A routine dig in northeastern North Dakota may have unearthed an entirely new species of ancient marine reptile that roamed underwater while dinosaurs walked the earth. Paleontologists with the North ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Paleontologists have uncovered the dramatic fossilized bones of a ...

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On 6 April 1821 – a little more than two decades before their countryman Richard Owen would coin the term "Dinosauria" – the English naturalists Henry de la Beche and William Conybeare presented a ...

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