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 ...

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 ... a region notorious for producing fossils with potentially altered or forged features. Fossils from this area often lack the reliable ...

A final troubling note — two of the teeth have a little extra bone material intruding on them, a feature called "medial overlap." That's not typical for mosasaurs at all, Sharpe's team noted in ...