Kansas is one of the prime locations for finding fossils, especially in the Niobrara Chalk region. Scientists have found the fossils of numerous sharks, mosasaurs, plesiosaurs, turtles ...

Morocco is uniquely rich in mosasaur fossils, says Henry Sharpe at the University of Alberta in Canada. “Miners working in the phosphate mines come across mosasaurs all the time.” The problem ...

Part of the fossil skeleton of the mosasaur Platycarpus ictericus. This 83- to 81-million-year-old specimen is from Kansas, USA The Museum's lepidosaur collection contains the fossilised remains of ...