platecarpus | Boneblogger: Science and the outdoors https://boneblogger.com Exploring the natural world Wed, 17 Nov 2010 17:23:25 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Fossil tells a new tail https://boneblogger.com/fossil-tells-a-new-tail/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fossil-tells-a-new-tail Thu, 09 Sep 2010 02:12:59 +0000 http://boneblogger.com/?p=1942 Mosasaurs lived in the world’s oceans during the Late Cretaceous, the last Period from the Age of Dinosaurs (see the geologic time scale). They are close relatives of modern snakes and lizards, and during the Cretaceous they become fully aquatic sea monsters, growing to tremendous sizes, and were the top predators of their environments. Their […]

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