Classification and scale This animal was a mosasaur,a group of large marine reptiles that lived during the Late Cretaceous ...
"Here we have two T. rexes, one the king of the dinosaurs on land, the other the king of the reptiles in the water." Paleontologists just identified an enormous predator that ruled Earth's seas in the ...
Earth was a terrifying place during the Cretaceous period, some 66 million to 145 million years ago. During its tail end, Tyrannosaurus rex prowled the land. And a little before that, another kind of ...
Equipped with powerful jaws and finely serrated teeth, paleontologists say the 43-foot-long prehistoric marine reptile deserves the name Tylosaurus rex. After remeasuring dozens of mosasaur specimens ...
Larger Marine Predator Than Tyrannosaurus Rex Identified Fossil reanalysis confirms Tylosaurus rex as distinct species, outsize apex predator of ancient seas ...
Paleontologists have long hailed Tyrannosaurus rex as king of the dinosaurs. Now, the name "T. rex" also belongs to a newly described extinct carnivore — a massive marine reptile with the scientific ...
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