Miners Looking for Ammonite Stumble on Rare Complete Fossils of 'Ocean Predators' From 100 Million Years Ago Evidence of ...

As similar fossils turned up, Mosasaurus turned out to be just the first genus of a whole group of marine reptiles—the mosasaurs. More recently, the seagoing reptile has received the Hollywood ...

A team of researchers spent five years removing the surrounding sandstone from the fossils. They also took a cast of the mosasaur in place to provide a record of the position of the bones before ...