An enormous sea lizard with teeth like a killer whale was likely the apex 'megapredator' of the ocean 66 million years ago, fossil evidence reveals. Fossils discovered by researchers at the University of Bath suggest that Thalassotitan's skull and teeth enabled it to devour other large sea creatures. Fossils discovered by researchers at the University of Bath suggest that Thalassotitan's …
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In March 2020, a group of researchers identified a fossil recovered from northern Myanmar to be the world's smallest dinosaur, that frequented about 99 million years ago. Led by Arnau Bolet from the School of Earth Sciences at the University of Bristol, the researchers analysed the amber fossil using CT scans at the Australian Centre for Neutron Scattering and the …
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 marine reptile with powerful jaws and tremendous bite-force was one of the apex predators. A type of seagoing lizard called a mosasaur that ruled the oceans at the same time dinosaurs dominated the land, it has …
