When visitors step into Catoosa's D.W. Correll Museum — with its collection ranging from classic cars to ancient geodes — they may notice a fossilized reptile that appears to be soaring directly at ...

This video breaks down how mosasaurus rose to dominance and reshaped marine ecosystems during the late Cretaceous. Its size, mobility, and hunting mechanics allowed it to outperform nearly every ...

There's a giant, vicious lizard monster lurking in the ocean. It's more massive than any creature that exists today. Say hello to the modern-day Mosasaurus. This creature went extinct 66 million years ...

Former U.S. skeleton athlete John Daly was once asked why anyone would decide to hurl themselves, head first, down an ice-coated mountainside chute on a thin sled with no safety equipment other than a ...

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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 ...

Giant reptiles, masters of the oceans more than 66 million years ago, swimming in rivers? A recent discovery in North America raises this surprising hypothesis and changes our perception of mosasaurs.

The mighty mosasaurs were once thought to have ruled only the oceans — but a new discovery is rewriting that story. In North Dakota, scientists have uncovered a massive tooth lodged in the sediments ...

Max Scott examined a long-standing hypothesis about agonistic social interactions in Mosasauridae, an extinct family of Late Cretaceous marine toxicoferan lizards. Previous studies on mosasaur agonism ...