Despite past criticisms, new film may redeem overlooked elements with nods to previous movies and fan-favorite moments. ...

Digital reconstruction of the Late Cretaceous (~69 million years old) crown bird Vegavis iaai that was completed following ...

Additionally, astronomers speculated on neutron star land forms, paleontologists reported a previously unknown Cretaceous-era predator and a tech start-up is building a living seawall in Florida ...

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 ...

Mosasaur fossil may be a forgery, researchers claim CT scans needed to verify authenticity of the fossil Fossil from Morocco raises concerns over scientific integrity ...

The Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) extinction event that occurred 66 million years ago is believed to have been caused by an asteroid crashing into Earth just off the Yucatan peninsula in south ...

The original study introduced Xenodens calminechari as a one-of-a-kind species of mosasaur, a predatory marine reptile that dominated the oceans during the Cretaceous period.

In 2021, scientists identified a new mosasaur species upon the discovery of a Cretaceous-period jaw with unusual teeth in a Moroccan mine. There’s only one problem—the remains may have been ...

Fossil of Mosasaurs marine reptile. Image by Roland Tanglao from Vancouver, Canada, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons In ...

A mosasaur species with saw-like teeth that was described by scientists in 2021 may have been based on forged fossils, and researchers are now calling for CT scans to determine the creature's origin.

This article explores 15 of the deadliest marine reptiles that once roamed our planet’s oceans. Mosasaurus was an apex predator of the late Cretaceous period, growing up to 50 feet in length. Equipped ...

After a detailed examination, scientists identified these tracks as belonging to Grallator ssatoi -- which were made by a carnivorous dinosaur that roamed the Earth during the Cretaceous period. The ...