A remarkable discovery in Morocco has shed light on a mysterious ancient marine predator, Carinodens acrodon, a small but highly specialized mosasaur that roamed the oceans during the late ...

French customs officers have found nine dinosaur teeth during a routine check near the Italian border. The discovery was made ...

I n 2021, a groundbreaking study published in the Cretaceous Research journal unveiled the discovery of a new mosasaur species in Morocco. This marine lizard, described as having «shark teeth ...

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 ...

Mosasaur species, which are the largest predators ... The fossil was reportedly found in a phosphate mine in Morocco's Khouribga province, a region notorious for producing fossils with potentially ...

The discovery of a mosasaur fossil in a phosphate mine in Morocco has raised concerns over its authenticity. Initially described in 2021 as a new species, Xenodens calminechari, the fossil ...

When phosphate miners in Morocco accidentally uncovered a fossil ... then wrote a paper describing the fossil as belonging to a new species of mosasaur -- a large carnivorous marine reptile ...

Mosasaurs "replaced their teeth continuously ... Wahiba Bel Haouz, a researcher at Morocco's University of Hassan II Casablanca, who was also not involved in the research, said the country doesn ...

We can confirm the authenticity of the fossil (25 January, p 21). Our team includes world experts in Moroccan mosasaurs. Having published 20 papers, described 10 new mosasaurids, examined ...