Mosasaurs were some of the most fearsome apex predators to ever stalk the Cretaceous era’s oceans. And according to Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) geologist James Starnes, a ...

A giant "sea dragon" backbone plucked from a riverbank in Mississippi could belong to the largest mosasaur ever found in the state, scientists say. Researchers only found a single vertebra from the ...

Recently, in 2025, an incredible discovery made headlines. As it turns out, a very surprising state is one of the world's prehistoric places with ancient sea monsters. In the U.S. state of Mississippi ...

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 ...

A previously unknown "formidable" sea predator that lived about 90 million years ago, during the age of the dinosaurs, has been discovered in Mexico. The newly identified species, named Yaguarasaurus ...

A Mississippi paleontologist made a chance discovery of the skull of a mosasaur and scientists recently removed a large block of hard clay containing the skull along with other bones that were ...

Mosasaurs were the apex predators of the oceans during the reign of the dinosaurs, but new research reveals dinosaurs weren't ...

A giant ocean predator that terrorised the seas during the time of the dinosaurs may have also hunted in rivers, a tooth fossil discovered in North Dakota suggests. The extinct lizard-like reptile ...

Researchers have revealed a previously unknown species of "giant sea lizard" with a fearsome set of "dagger-like" teeth that lived during the age of the dinosaurs. The new species, described in a ...

Giant ancient sea reptiles, called mosasaurs, lived in rivers as well as seas, according to a new study. The research was based on the fossil of a tooth that was previously found in the United States.