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 ...

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 ...