From mosasaurs to snakes and lizards, 'megafilters' shape reptile fossil collections

For the more than 242 million years that lizards and snakes appear in the fossil record, they show up mostly as pieces of ...

Mosasaurs Once Lived in Earth's Oceans—and Paleontologists Found Their Fossils in New Jersey

Large aquatic lizards used to populate the planet's oceans–and you can find their fossils in suburban New Jersey.
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240 million-year-old monster marine reptile’s fossil discovered with intact skin

In a stunning paleontological find, a fossil of an ancient aquatic reptile with preserved skin has been found in Switzerland. The virtually complete fossil specimen belongs to Lariosaurus valceresii, ...
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I tried to find out if the dinosaur tooth I bought online was real. It didn’t go as expected

It stands to reason that a 95 million-year-old tooth shipped to my home would have a rich past. But what ensued after I bought it online for about $100 revealed how, for such relics and those who ...