A new genus of sea monster has just been officially identified, and it’s a palaeontological weirdo. The new species has been ...

Geologists working on surveying land in Mississippi stumbled upon an incredible find: the fossil of an ancient marine apex predator considered a "sea dragon" of the time.

A bizarre sea creature which hunted prey more than 500 million years ago had three eyes, and another unusual feature. Fossils containing Mosura fentoni were recently discovered in Canada and were ...

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The remains of a giant “sea monster” that once dominated the oceans was unearthed by geologists on a riverbank in the Mississippi River, scientists have said. Geologists discovered a ...

“This was a true, true sea monster,” Starnes tells the Mississippi Clarion-Ledger. “This is bigger than most dinosaurs walking around on land.” The gigantic mosasaur lived at the end of ...

Lower sea levels back then could have exposed enough land to walk across. “Adaptations to a terrestrial lifestyle documented for sebecids and the chronology of West Indian fossils strongly ...

"This was distinctly not a mammal," Starnes said. "This was definitely a sea lizard." Mosasaurs, a diverse group of marine lizards, conquered the seas in the Late Cretaceous period, a time when ...