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.

A giant ocean predator that terrorised the seas during the time of the dinosaurs may have also hunted in rivers, a tooth fossil discovered in North Dakota suggests. The extinct lizard-like reptile ...

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The ancient seas of the Late Cretaceous period would’ve been scary places to swim. Between 66 million and 100 million years ago, the world’s waterways were chock-full of real-life sea monsters. Not ...

Giant reptiles, masters of the oceans more than 66 million years ago, swimming in rivers? A recent discovery in North America raises this surprising hypothesis and changes our perception of mosasaurs.

Scientists have discovered a new species of mosasaur, a giant sea-dwelling lizard that dates back to the age of the dinosaurs, that stands out because of its unique, star-shaped teeth. It’s thought ...

A giant ocean predator that terrorised the seas during the time of the dinosaurs may have also hunted in rivers, a tooth fossil discovered in North Dakota suggests. The extinct lizard-like reptile ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of mosasaur, a sea-dwelling lizard from the age of the dinosaurs, with strange, ridged teeth unlike those of any known reptile. Along with other recent finds ...

The Hell Creek Mosasaur, reconstruction by Christopher DiPiazza. Please note that more images and a short video are available at this link: https://springernature-my ...

An enormous sea snake from Norse legend that was fathered by the trickster god Loki and grew big enough to circle the globe is now the namesake for a different type of “monster” — a newly discovered ...