Mosasaurs were some of the most fearsome apex predators to ever stalk the Cretaceous era’s oceans. And according to ...

Video above shows 2025 Fossil Road Show JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – Officials with the Mississippi Department of Environmental ...

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

Researchers uncovered one vertebra, and based on its size, they estimate the massive creature was at least 30 feet long when ...

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

Researchers may have discovered Mississippi's largest ever mosasaur after pulling a Cretaceous-aged fossil out of a riverbed ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—Scientists with Mississippi State University are playing a key role in an exciting new fossil discovery that’s close to campus, a discovery that may represent the largest mosasaur ...

Geologists near Starkville found a bone of a Mosasaurus hoffmannii, one of the biggest species of mosasaurs, which could reach lengths of 50 feet.

Their size ranged from a few meters to over 50 feet (15 meters) for the largest species, such as Mosasaurus hoffmanni. Mosasaurs were efficient predators, equipped with powerful jaws and conical teeth ...

suggests the mosasaur was at least 30 feet long. 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 ...