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 ...

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 ...

An enormous sea snake from Norse legend that was fathered by the trickster god Loki and grew big enough to circle the globe is now the namesake for a different type of “monster” — a newly discovered ...

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 ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Scientists with Mississippi State University are playing a key role in an exciting new fossil discovery that’s close to campus, a discovery that may represent the largest mosasaur ...

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A new discovery has revealed a previously unknown species of mosasaur, Jormungander walhallaensi, shedding new light on the oceans of the Late Cretaceous period. Named after the legendary Norse sea ...