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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“CT scanning fossils is common, and really should be standard for mosasaurs coming from Morocco,” says Sharpe. Rather than a new species, Sharpe’s team suspects the fossil represents a ...

Fossilized remains of a previously unknown species of mosasaur, an extinct marine reptile, have been uncovered in the phosphate mines of Sidi Chennane, located in the Béni Mellal-Khénifra region.

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 ...

A never-before-seen mosasaur species first described in 2021 may be based on forged fossils, a new study suggests. Researchers are now calling for computed tomography (CT) scans of the remains to ...

Mosasaurs grew up to an impressive 50 feet ... Gigarcanum delcourti is an extinct species of giant gecko that inhabited either New Caledonia or New Zealand possibly up to the mid-19th century.

Experts have been able to identify the fossilised specimen as part of the mosasaur species, an extinct group of large marine reptiles. This aquatic predator would have lived in the Pacific Ocean ...

Illustration. (photo credit: Dotted Yeti. Via Shutterstock) A new study raised serious concerns about the authenticity of the mosasaur species Xenodens calminechari, originally described in 2021 ...