The Western Interior Seaway, which existed roughly 80 million years ago, split North America into North and South. It was a ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Scientists with Mississippi State University are playing a key role in an exciting new fossil discovery that’s close to campus, a discovery that may represent the largest mosasaur ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mosasaurs mostly stuck to ocean habitats, but evidence now suggests they sometime ventured elsewhere. A tooth recently found in ...

Paleontologists have discovered a new fossil species, Pluridens imelaki, from the Late Cretaceous phosphate deposits in ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — In a groundbreaking discovery, a research team led by a UNF professor and the Bureau of Land Management has unveiled new evolutionary insights following the remarkable find of a ...

Paleontologists have uncovered the dramatic fossilized bones of a 30-foot underwater lizard in Texas. Excavations of the mosasaur's fossilized oversized skull, lower jawbones and vertebrae reportedly ...