A small tail vertebra picked up on a windswept Antarctic island in 1985 did not look like much. For decades, it was treated ...

Scientists have identified a new marine dinosaur species, Tylosaurus rex, which grew to 43ft and terrorised the seas over 80 million years ago. This massive mosasaur reptile, found primarily in ...

An octopus species that lived about 80 million years ago had a body length of up to 19 meters and was likely the top predator ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Corbin Bullard, 12, discovered a mosasaur fossil estimated to be 80 million years old while on a 4-H field trip in Wichita, Kansas ...

A colossal new sea predator named Tylosaurus rex has been identified from fossils found in Texas, revealing a brutal 43-foot-long hunter that ruled ancient oceans 80 million years ago. The discovery ...

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 ...