KAINAN, Wakayama Prefecture--A mosasaur fossil found in the mountains ... The front and rear flippers are larger than the skull, suggesting that the new species swam using its leg fins, similar ...

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 ...

Nick Longrich at the University of Bath, UK, and his colleagues analysed the find and classified it as a new species of mosasaur named Xenodens calminechariin 2021. Read more Largest ever animal ...

The new species, described in a study published in the journal Cretaceous Research, is a type of ... other known mosasaurs in having a very short face, while the back of the skull is very long ...