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 ...

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 ...

Mosasaurs were not dinosaurs but distant relatives ... The discovery of Khinjaria was based on a skull and parts of the skeleton found in a phosphate mine southeast of Casablanca.

Mosasaurs weren't dinosaurs ... The study is based on a skull and parts of the skeleton collected from a phosphate mine southeast of Casablanca. The study involved researchers from the University ...

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 ...

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 ...