You wouldn’t want to swim in Late Cretaceous seas. If you’ve seen the first Jurassic World movie, you’ll recognize a mosasaur as the creature that leapt from the water to eat a great white shark. That ...

Imagine swimming in the ocean and suddenly spotting a creature larger than any shark, faster than any human can sprint, and more vicious than any predator alive today. Meet the Mosasaurus, a marine ...

Mosasaurs, giant marine reptiles that existed more than 66 million years ago, lived not only in the sea but also in rivers. This is shown by new research based on analyses of a mosasaur tooth found in ...

The predators, which were made famous in the “Jurassic World” franchise, likely arose at least three times Riley Black | Science Correspondent In 1780, before the word “paleontology” had even been ...

Researchers at the University of Cincinnati identified a new species of mosasaur — an 18-foot-long fish-eating monster that lived 80 million years ago. UC assistant professor-educator Takuya Konishi ...

Mosasaurus was among the largest and last of the sea-dwelling mosasaurs. Dmitri Bogdanov via Wikimedia Commons under CC0 There hardly was a more fearsome family of seagoing carnivores than the ...