'If you put flippers on a Komodo dragon and made it really big, that's basically what it would have looked like,' the lead author of the study said.
A gigantic sea monster from the era of the dinosaurs has been discovered and named after a Norse snake.The 24-foot-long creature is a new species of mosasaur—aquatic, carnivorous lizards that lived during the late Cretaceous period. The fossil was discovered in North Dakota in 2015, and is described in a new study published in the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History.
Paleontologists are also trying to determine how different groups of mosasaur are related to each other. This new discovery provides them with new insight into the species.'This fossil is coming from a geologic time in the United States that we don't really understand,' co-author Clint Boyd, from the North Dakota Geological Survey, said in the release. 'The more we can fill in the geographic and temporal timeline, the better we can understand these creatures.
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