“If you put flippers on a Komodo dragon and made it really big, that’s what it would have looked like,” study co-author and Richard Gilder Graduate School PhD student Amelia Zietlow, said in a ...

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 94-million-year-old ...

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 ...

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 ...

A previously unknown "formidable" sea predator that lived about 90 million years ago, during the age of the dinosaurs, has been discovered in Mexico. The newly identified species, named Yaguarasaurus ...

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 ...

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 ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Mosasaurs were some of the most fearsome apex predators to ever ...

An artist imagines what Globidens alabamaensis would have looked like when present-day Texas was still submerged. Nathan Dehaut, Journal of Paleontological Sciences Roughly 80 million years ago, a ...

Geologists were studying rock layers in east-central Mississippi when they spotted something unusual sticking out of the mud. After the scientists carefully pulled the object from the sediment, they ...

Jormungandr, a 24-foot aquatic lizard that lived 80 million years ago, is found to be a transitional species between two well-known mosasaurs “If you put flippers on a Komodo dragon and made it really ...