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It was bigger than a killer whale: 66 million-year-old tooth suggests mosasaurs were hunting in rivers, not just seas
A mosasaur tooth has been found at one of the most famous Late Cretaceous fossil sites in the world. That means the famous marine predators adapted to a freshwater environment, and it seems they ...
Mosasaurs, those large marine reptiles from the long-gone Cretaceous world, were quite picky in their choice of diet. Researchers came to this conclusion after studying the wear marks on mosasaur ...
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 ...
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What If the Mosasaurus Never Stopped Evolving
Imagine swimming in the ocean and suddenly spotting a creature larger than any shark, faster than any human can sprint, and more vicious than any predator alive today. Meet the Mosasaurus, a marine ...
A surprising fossil find shows that some mosasaurs lived in ancient rivers as oceans changed near the end of the Cretaceous.
Mosasaurs were enormous reptiles best known for ruling ancient oceans more than 66 million years ago, but new evidence suggests some also lived in rivers. Scientists reached this conclusion after ...
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 ...
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