Whatever you want to call the Mosasaurus hoffmannii —a giant mosasaur, a massive water dragon, maybe even a sea monster —just know that it was one big dino, and we’ve got the bones to prove it.

The mosasaurus genus was a completely marine reptile, closely related to Komodo dragons of today, that would have lived between 90 million and 60 million years ago. It would grow to lengths of ...

About 72 million years ago, a mosasaur the size of a modern great white shark terrorized the Pacific Ocean. Nicknamed Wakayama Soryu or “blue dragon,” the large extinct marine reptile was ...

In 2015, Boyd and a team discovered a new species of mosasaur which may have been a precursor to the Mosasaurus, a larger form that grew to nearly 50 feet long and lived alongside the T-rex.

Mosasaurus Mosasaurus on a reef system, mouth wide. Image: Apple Not all of the show is set on land or in the air. The first episode explores the life and times of a girthy mosasaur (Mosasaurus ...

Starnes "immediately" knew they had found a mosasaur based on the shape of the vertebra, he said. The researchers estimated the specimen, determined to be Mosasaurus hoffmannii, was between 30 and ...

Exceeding 50 feet in length, Mosasaurus hoffmannii was among the largest mosasaurs. (Sergey Krasovskiy / Stocktrek Images via Getty Images) The predators, which were made famous in the “Jurassic ...