A remarkable discovery in Morocco has shed light on a mysterious ancient marine predator, Carinodens acrodon, a small but highly specialized mosasaur that roamed the oceans during the late ...

In 2021, scientists identified a new mosasaur species upon the discovery ... a dental battery [dental arrangement] with numerous small, short, bladelike teeth packed together to form a saw-like ...

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 ...

The fossil of Xenodens calminechari, once touted as a revolutionary discovery, is now under scrutiny. This 72-million-year-old mosasaur fossil once believed to be a new species, was recently ...