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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I n 2021, a groundbreaking study published in the Cretaceous Research journal unveiled the discovery of a new mosasaur species in Morocco. This marine lizard, described as having «shark teeth ...