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.

For the more than 242 million years that lizards and snakes appear in the fossil record, they show up mostly as pieces of lizard jaws and snake vertebrae. Exactly why these parts survive as fossils ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the largest mosasaurs known so far, reaching up to 43 feet long, this top predator was described from 80-million-year-old fossils found primarily in northern Texas decades ago. It was named ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A single tooth found among dinosaur bones in North Dakota reveals that some of the largest sea reptiles also ruled ancient rivers.

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 ...

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 ...