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

Leard and Palmer are experienced scientists pursuing their doctoral degrees in earth and atmospheric sciences at MSU while ...

Geologists were studying rock layers in east-central Mississippi when they spotted something unusual sticking out of the mud. After the scientists carefully pulled the object from the sediment, they ...

And according to Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) geologist James Starnes, a recent vertebrae fossil find belonged to “about as big” a mosasaur specimen as one could get.

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

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 ...

Starnes and his colleagues compared the fossil to the largest mosasaur remains held in the Mississippi Museum of Natural Science, which include jaws, portions of a skull and a tooth. Starnes noted ...

THEY TURNED THAT FOSSIL OVER TO Mississippi State University scientists have discovered a massive bone belonging to a marine reptile that has been extinct for millions of years. The mosasaur vertebra, ...

represented the first scientifically documented discovery of a dinosaur fossil in California. About a year later, Bennison found the preserved skull and spine of a mosasaur in the foothills west ...