Paleontologists have finally identified a ferocious dinosaur with a crocodile-like snout that terrorized inland seas more than 60 million years ago. Remains of the marine predator were found in Morocco, where more than a dozen types of mosasaur have been discovered. Mosasaurs, which breathed air and could reach 55 feet long, lived during the Late Cretaceous period, between 72 and 66 million years ago. Each species of mosasaur evolved to be an expert at capturing a specific prey or a different style of predation. An artist's rendering of a Gavialimimus almaghribensis, a new species of mosasaur identified by researchers at the University of Alberta in Canada.

Source: Daily Mail October 07, 2020 22:53 UTC