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 ...

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 ...

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 ...