The find came in the fossil-rich outcrops of northeast Mississippi, near Starkville in the Prairie Bluff Formation, according ...

Geologists have uncovered the fossil of a mosasaur, an ancient aquatic predator, in Mississippi. Often referred to as a “sea ...

These would have allowed mosasaurs to quickly ambush their targets instead of chasing them over long distances. Any prey that couldn’t escape were ensnared by their 60-or-so daggerlike teeth ...

sharp teeth. Some were apex predators that feasted on whatever they could get their jaws around—even other mosasaurs. “While the dinosaurs ruled the land, these Mesozoic era oceans were likely ...