Paleontologists have discovered a new 40-foot mosasaur species with a massive, skull-crushing bite that ruled the Cretaceous ...
A newly identified mosasaur from Texas suggests that some ancient marine predators were larger, more powerful, and possibly ...
“Besides being huge, roughly twice the length of the largest great white sharks, T-rex appeared to be a much meaner animal ...
Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the water, scientists have discovered a giant, bus-size sea predator that was ...
During the Late Cretaceous era, much of modern-day Texas lay beneath the Western Interior Seaway, a vast warm ocean filled ...
Tylosaurus rex rewrites the story of giant sea predators, not just for its size but for what its bones reveal about mosasaur ...
Scientists figured out that the predators were lumped in with a previously named mosasaur species. The new one, called Tylosaurus rex, could grow to 43 feet long, about the length of a school bus ...
Scientists have identified a massive ancient sea predator from fossils found in Texas, describing it as the "T. rex of the ...
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 paleontology.
You wouldn’t want to swim in Late Cretaceous seas. If you’ve seen the first Jurassic World movie, you’ll recognize a mosasaur as the creature that leapt from the water to eat a great white shark. That ...