Mosasaur : Fossil Of Massive Marine Reptile
In Japan, a fossil of the extinct and apex predator Mosasaur, a massive marine reptile from the Late Cretaceous period, was recently discovered.
- Mosasaurs were a group of large predatory marine reptiles that inhabited all of the world’s oceans during the Late Cretaceous epoch, between 90 and 66 million years ago.
- They are related to snakes and monitor lizards and were some of the largest marine organisms of the time and some of the largest predatory reptiles.
- These creatures were contemporaries of Tyrannosaurus rex and other Cretaceous dinosaurs that ruled the Earth.
- They lived near the surface of the water since it breathed air, much as whales do.
- They died out, along with dinosaurs and many other animals, during the mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous Period, 66 million years ago.
