WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Roughly 80 million years ago in the shallow inland sea that once split North America into eastern and western land masses, a fearsome 33-foot-long (10-meter-long) marine reptile ...

A unique new fossil discovered in Jordan has given researchers fresh insight about a prehistoric sea lizard called prognathodon, as it is the first fossil to show the shape of the lizard's tale, ...

Jamie MacLaren (using Blender(TM) version 3.0.0 and Windows Video Editor), 3D model based on Prognathodon solvayi (IRSNB R 33b), laser scanned by Jamie MacLaren at the Royal Belgian Institute of ...

You wouldn’t want to swim in Late Cretaceous seas. If you’ve seen the first Jurassic World movie, you’ll recognize a mosasaur as the creature that leapt from the water to eat a great white shark. That ...

If you're a bit of a nervous swimmer, be thankful you were not around 100 million years ago, when the oceans around New Zealand were teeming with Prognathodon, a marine lizard known for its massively ...

A giant lizard that ruled the prehistoric seas up to 85 million years ago, killing anything in its path, was a skilled hunter as deadly as a shark, Swedish scientists have said. At a time when T-Rex ...

It was a lizard with a shark-like fin. That’s what Swedish researchers have discovered about the fearsome mosasaur Prognathodon, which lived in the seas of the Cretaceous Period about 70 million years ...

Researchers at Regina's Royal Saskatchewan Museum have unearthed a new fossil almost as big as the province's beloved Tyrannosaurus rex, Scotty. The prognathodon — which paleontologists call the "T.

The Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (JVP) publishes original contributions on all aspects of vertebrate paleontology, including biostratigraphy, evolution, functional morphology, ichnology, ...

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A real skeleton of a DINOSAUR is set to go on sale at auction next week - just the thing for budding fossil fans. But creating a Natural History Museum in your home will cost you, as the sale is ...