The biggest indication that the fossil is forged are the teeth, says Sharpe. Each mosasaur tooth corresponds to a pit in the jaw. “Even if the fossil is very poor quality, you can still count ...

Ruby Reynolds and her father were on the beach when they discovered Ichthyotitan severnensis - the largest-ever marine ...

A new study raised serious concerns about the authenticity of the mosasaur ... to that jaw," she added. The lack of regulation in Morocco facilitates the circulation of forged fossil pieces.

Questions emerged when researchers revisited the fossil’s anatomy. The new study, published in The Anatomical Record, highlights discrepancies in the jaw and teeth structure. Unlike all other known ...

Yet there it sits in western Kansas—330 acres of the most unexpected, jaw-dropping terrain you’ll find between ... you’re literally walking through an ancient seabed that was once home to mosasaurs, ...

STARKVILLE, Miss. (WJTV) – Officials with the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) said geologists recently uncovered a giant mosasaur vertebra near Starkville. MDEQ’s ...

Mosasaurs were apex predators, reaching lengths up to 50 feet and weighing up to 20,000 pounds, with powerful jaws and numerous teeth. The fossil was found in an area that was once underwater ...

Through an examination of remaining proteins left, scientists managed to determine that it was a rare example of a Denisovan ...

The Jurassic fossil Juracanthocephalus reveals a key evolutionary link between rotifers and parasitic acanthocephalans, ...

A fossil jaw originally netted by fishermen off the ocean floor near Taiwan’s west coast belonged to a member of a mysterious hominid population known as Denisovans, scientists report in the ...

A 444 million-year-old arthropod fossil, discovered 25 years ago, has been identified. The fossil, named Keurbos susanae, was found in South Africa's Soom Shale. Unusually, it's preserved inside ...