Parents take their children to view a fossilized Mosasaurus skull at the Natural History Museum of China in Beijing on January 14, 2025. On that day, The Rise of Vertebrates exhibition hall opened ...

A new study raised serious concerns about the authenticity of the mosasaur species Xenodens calminechari, originally described in 2021 based on fossils unearthed in a Moroccan phosphate mine.

In 1780, before the word “paleontology” had even been coined, chalk miners in the Netherlands uncovered a strange skull ... Conybeare dubbed the creature Mosasaurus, a seagoing relative ...

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 ...

The items up for auction from Crowe include artwork, film memorabilia, and the mounted skull of a Mosasaur that Crowe "acquired from" DiCaprio in 2008. Sotheby's lists the dinosaur skull at an ...