Of the four species Formoso examined, Mosasaurus and Plotosaurus probably preferred maintaining a comparatively steady speed ...

A study in Current Biology suggests that Cretaceous mosasaurs utilized a 'slam-start' tactic, employing powerful tail-driven accelerations from rest to ambush prey, ...

Some of the giant marine reptiles that ruled the seas during the age of dinosaurs were better built for surprise attacks, ...

The researchers were most interested in comparing how well the two groups performed a move they referred to as a “slam start” ...

New research reveals how mosasaurs, the giant marine reptiles from the Age of the Dinosaurs, used their tails to hunt, ...

Mosasaurs are extinct marine lizards, spectacular examples of which were first discovered in 1766 near Maastricht in the Netherlands, fueling the rise of the field of vertebrate paleontology.

Fossils unearthed in Provencein 1997 have now been identified as a new species, Garamaudo bauciensis, a roughly 2.5-meter ...

By analyzing tail length and muscle power, paleontologists have explained the physics behind a mosasaur's deadly ability to ...

For the more than 242 million years that lizards and snakes appear in the fossil record, they show up mostly as pieces of lizard jaws and snake vertebrae. Exactly why these parts survive as fossils ...

A new mosasaur species has been identified from a 70-million-year-old fossil found in Egypt’s Western Desert. Its unusually long, slender jaws could reveal how this ancient marine predator hunted.

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Mosasaurs, those large marine reptiles from the long-gone Cretaceous world, were quite picky in their choice of diet. Researchers came to this conclusion after studying the wear marks on mosasaur ...