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 ...

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 ...