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 ...

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 ...

Though the massive skull he purchased belonged to a mosasaur, which is a marine reptile and not a dinosaur, Invernizzi prizes the ancient animal head. It now sits in the living room of his home ...

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 ...

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 ...