A new study raised serious concerns about the authenticity of the mosasaur species Xenodens calminechari, originally described in 2021 based on fossils unearthed in a Moroccan phosphate mine.

Researchers just discovered a 66-million-year-old sea lizard in a phosphate mine near Casablanca, Morocco. The Khinjaria acuta belonged to the Mosasauridae family, an extinct group of lizards whose ...

KAINAN, Wakayama Prefecture--A mosasaur fossil found in the mountains ... The front and rear flippers are larger than the skull, suggesting that the new species swam using its leg fins, similar ...

The items up for auction from Crowe include artwork, film memorabilia, and the mounted skull of a Mosasaur that Crowe "acquired from" DiCaprio in 2008. Sotheby's lists the dinosaur skull at an ...

Experts have been able to identify the fossilised specimen as part of the mosasaur species, an extinct group of large marine reptiles. This aquatic predator would have lived in the Pacific Ocean ...