“So many of the mosasaur fossils being sold from Morocco are modified ... “A broken fossil bone will not sell, but a complete piece, like a jaw bone full of well-preserved teeth, will likely ...

Like a prehistoric nod to the sea outside, a 17-foot-long mosasaur ... reptile fossil in 2016—first its tail, then its skull—not far from where they live. The skull is the most complete ...

Fossil hunter Alan Detrich ... He said the skeletons of both mosasaurs are 75 to 80 percent complete. Detrich and, separately, Leonard Krishtalka, director of the of Kansas University’s Natural ...

KAINAN, Wakayama Prefecture--A mosasaur fossil found in the mountains in the prefecture almost two decades ago has been determined to be a new genus and species that lived more than 70 million ...

Instead he found a black fossil embedded in the solid ... Graphic/Takuya Konishi Image caption, The mosasaur discovered is believed to be the most complete skeleton ever found in Japan or the ...

A never-before-seen mosasaur species first described in 2021 may be based on forged fossils, a new study suggests. Researchers are now calling for computed tomography (CT) scans of the remains to ...

Just a few hundred square yards of the 65-acre site have been fully excavated but have still yielded more than 50,000 cataloged marine and terrestrial fossils, from reptilian mosasaurs to sea ...

The tip of a right flipper of the new plesiosaur fossil, with two scales along the ... offering a more complete look at what these real-life sea monsters might have looked like when they lived ...