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 ...

In 2021, scientists identified a new mosasaur species upon the discovery of a Cretaceous-period jaw with unusual teeth in a Moroccan mine. There’s only one problem—the remains may have been ...

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 ...

As similar fossils turned up, Mosasaurus turned out to be just the first genus of a whole group of marine reptiles—the mosasaurs. More recently, the seagoing reptile has received the Hollywood ...

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 ...

KAINAN, Wakayama Prefecture--A mosasaur fossil found in the mountains in the prefecture almost two decades ago has been determined to be a new genus and species that lived more than 70 million ...