Geologists working in Mississippi recently stumbled upon an incredible find: the fossil of an ancient marine apex predator. They uncovered a piece of vertebra they said likely belonged to a mosasaur, ...

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.

The global fossil record of squamates, which includes lizards, mosasaurs, snakes, and amphisbaenians (A) is overwhelmingly incomplete, with most fossil species containing less than 20% of the totality ...

The remains of a giant “sea monster” that once dominated the oceans was unearthed by geologists on a riverbank in the Mississippi River, scientists have said. Geologists discovered a fossilised single ...

The mosasaur was the apex predator of the seas when dinosaurs roamed land. Geologists working in Mississippi recently stumbled upon an incredible find: the fossil of an ancient marine apex predator.