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 ...

Dr. Scott explains all about the prehistoric marine species Mosasaurus. Dr. Scott explains all about the prehistoric marine species Mosasaurus. Dinosaur Train is available to stream on pbs.org and the ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Mosasaurs went extinct 65.5 million years ago in the same mass extinction event that wiped out ...

This mosasaur skeleton, belonged to Tylosaurus proriger, measures about 29 feet long and is on display at Sternberg Museum of Natural History in Kansas. Tylosaurs lived about 88 to 78 million years ...

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 ...

For a little while, Mosasaurus maximus was my labmate. The sharp-toothed marine predator was an inoffensive neighbor, though – no doubt because only the fossilized bones, coated in beeswax to stop the ...