Since 2010, the Wakayama Prefectural Museum of Natural History and other entities have been excavating fossils pertaining to the mosasaur. They found about 65 percent of the whole-body skeleton ...

What began as an academic exercise in critical evaluation soon revealed potential contradictions in mosasaur anatomy and raised concerns about the fossil’s provenance. One key inconsistency lies ...

A new study, published by the American Association of Anatomy, challenges the earlier claims. It argues that the mosasaur, named «Xenodens calminechari» by Longrich et al. in 2021, was ...

This 72-million-year-old mosasaur fossil once believed to be a new species, was recently determined in a new study to potentially be a forgery. Scientists are asking for more high-tech CT scans to ...

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 ...

A Mosasaur. Contradictions in celebrated 'Sea Monster' skull point to possible fossil fraud in Morocco. Illustration. (photo credit: Dotted Yeti. Via Shutterstock) A new study raised serious ...