In 1780, before the word “paleontology” had even been coined, chalk miners in the Netherlands uncovered a strange skull ... of how many times large mosasaurs independently evolved, the ...

The world’s largest private fossil firm ... Though the massive skull he purchased belonged to a mosasaur, which is a marine reptile and not a dinosaur, Invernizzi prizes the ancient animal ...

This specific mosasaur was extremely large - similar in size to a great ... The mosasaur discovered is believed to be the most complete skeleton ever found in Japan or the northwestern Pacific ...

The items up for auction from Crowe include artwork, film memorabilia, and the mounted skull of a Mosasaur that Crowe "acquired from" DiCaprio in 2008. Sotheby's lists the dinosaur skull at an ...

Its scientific name Megapterygius Wakayamaensis means large wing from ... fossils pertaining to the mosasaur. They found about 65 percent of the whole-body skeleton, from head to tail.