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Massive Mosasaurs May Have Evolved More Than Once
In 1822, English paleontologist William Conybeare dubbed the creature Mosasaurus, a seagoing relative of today’s monitor lizards that hunted in prehistoric seas.
5 things kids, and your own inner child, won’t want to miss at N.J.’s new dinosaur fossil park
The museum is a 44,000-square-foot facility overlooking a 4-acre fossil-filled former sand quarry in Mantua, Gloucester ...
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Monitor Lizard
An obscure lizard reveals how zoos may indirectly play a role in animal trafficking An obscure lizard reveals how zoos may indirectly play a role in animal trafficking Australia’s Giant ...
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New mosasaur species from the ‘kingdom of fossils’ identified
The findings were published in the British paleontological journal, the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. Mosasaurs are marine reptiles akin to lizards and snakes rather than dinosaurs.
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Lepidosaur collection
Part of the fossil skeleton of the mosasaur Platycarpus ictericus. This 83- to 81-million-year-old specimen is from Kansas, USA The Museum's lepidosaur collection contains the fossilised remains of ...