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 ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Nearly 70 million years ago, mosasaurs were the stuff of ...

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 ...

For the more than 242 million years that lizards and snakes appear in the fossil record, they show up mostly as pieces of lizard jaws and snake vertebrae. Exactly why these parts survive as fossils ...

They weren’t in the delivery room, but researchers at Yale University and the University of Toronto have discovered a new birth story for a gigantic marine lizard that once roamed the oceans. Thanks ...

Mosasaurs were prehistoric aquatic reptiles that cruised the world’s oceans for 30 million years or so before they and the dinosaurs on land went extinct, about 65 million years ago. Newly discovered ...

Since the early 1980s, the story of how whales walked into the sea has become one of the most celebrated of all evolutionary transitions. Pakicetus, Ambulocetus, Rodhocetus, and many, many more—these ...

Mosasaurs were true sea monsters of late Cretaceous seas. These marine lizards -- related to modern snakes and monitor lizards -- grew as long as fifty feet, flashed two rows of sharp teeth, and ...

The mosasaur was a feared underwater predator that devoured other species and dominated the oceans millions of years ago, yet new evidence proves it also feasted on its own kind. Remains of three ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mosasaurs mostly stuck to ocean habitats, but evidence now suggests they sometime ventured elsewhere. A tooth recently found in ...

Since the early 1980’s, the story of how whales walked into the sea has become one of the most celebrated of all evolutionary transitions. Pakicetus, Ambulocetus, Rodhocetus, and many, many more – ...