At the end of the Cretaceous Period, a type of giant reptile called mosasaurs occupied and dominated oceanic food webs. Mosasaurs had long bodies and were related to both snakes and monitor lizards.

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 ...

GETTING VACCINATED. RESEARCHERS AT MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY JUST PLAYED A PART IN A MASSIVE PREHISTORIC DISCOVERY. GEOLOGISTS AT MSU FOUND THE LARGEST MOSASAUR BACKBONE EVER UNEARTHED IN THE STATE ...

The fossil of Xenodens calminechari, once touted as a revolutionary discovery, is now under scrutiny. This 72-million-year-old mosasaur fossil once believed to be a new species, was recently ...

Stable isotope analysis of mosasaur fossils from the Hell Creek Formation suggests some mosasaurs lived in freshwater ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The world was a drastically different place 90 million years ago, and Saturday on Good Morning Jacksonville, UNF faculty member Dr. Barry Albright gave viewers a glimpse into what ...

A terrifying 4-foot-long skull — with its giant teeth still attached — has been found in Northeast Mississippi by a paleontologist who literally stepped over it. George Phillips recalls he was ...