Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “This is a true, true sea monster,” Starnes recently told the local news outlet Hattiesburg American. “This [was] bigger than most ...

A giant "sea dragon" backbone plucked from a riverbank in Mississippi could belong to the largest mosasaur ever found in the state, scientists say. Researchers only found a single vertebra from the ...

Recently, in 2025, an incredible discovery made headlines. As it turns out, a very surprising state is one of the world's prehistoric places with ancient sea monsters. In the U.S. state of Mississippi ...

GETTING VACCINATED. RESEARCHERS AT MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY JUST PLAYED A PART IN A MASSIVE PREHISTORIC DISCOVERY. GEOLOGISTS AT MSU FOUND THE LARGEST MOSASAUR BACKBONE EVER UNEARTHED IN THE STATE ...

A Mississippi paleontologist made a chance discovery of the skull of a mosasaur and scientists recently removed a large block of hard clay containing the skull along with other bones that were ...

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At the end of the Cretaceous Period, a type of giant reptile called mosasaurs occupied and dominated oceanic food webs. Mosasaurs had long bodies and were related to both snakes and monitor lizards.

Giant ancient sea reptiles, called mosasaurs, lived in rivers as well as seas, according to a new study. The research was based on the fossil of a tooth that was previously found in the United States.