“I actually compared the vertebrae with the vertebrae of the mosasaur that they had, and it was almost a perfect match. It looked exactly like the one that they had.” Dr. Spearing hopes this ...

An examination of the bone revealed it to be a vertebra belonging to a nearly complete mosasaur skeleton. A five-year removal process followed, in which researchers separated the sandstone from ...

KAINAN, Wakayama Prefecture--A mosasaur fossil found in the mountains in the prefecture almost two decades ago has been determined to be a new genus and species that lived more than 70 million ...