Mosasaurs were the apex predators of the oceans during the reign of the dinosaurs, but new research reveals dinosaurs weren't safe from them in rivers either. Researchers from Sweden, the US, and the ...

At the end of the Cretaceous Period, a type of giant reptile called mosasaurs occupied and dominated oceanic food webs. Mosasaurs had long bodies and were related to both snakes and monitor lizards.

The remnants of a mosasaur show a sea predator that was ill equipped for slashing bites, and likely preferred to swallow its prey whole. Reading time 2 minutes Whoever said everything is bigger in ...

The Hell Creek Mosasaur, reconstruction by Christopher DiPiazza. Please note that more images and a short video are available at this link: https://springernature-my ...

"What we see is that it was an active hunter, which tells us a lot about how we can compare it, for example, to modern-day orcas." ...