When Frank Garcia was only 8, he remembers going to the library in West Tampa, Fla., and opening up a book about dinosaurs. The first page he saw featured a depiction of the massive ancient marine ...

The ancient seas of the Late Cretaceous period would’ve been scary places to swim. Between 66 million and 100 million years ago, the world’s waterways were chock-full of real-life sea monsters. Not ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of mosasaur, large, carnivorous aquatic lizards that lived during the late Cretaceous. With 'transitional' traits that place it between two well-known ...

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 ...

Mosasaurs were some of the most fearsome apex predators to ever stalk the Cretaceous era’s oceans. And according to Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality (MDEQ) geologist James Starnes, a ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The world was a drastically different place 90 million years ago, and Saturday on Good Morning Jacksonville, UNF faculty member Dr. Barry Albright gave viewers a glimpse into what ...

While Steven Spielberg's revolutionary film, Jurassic Park, features numerous dinosaur species, it notably excludes aquatic creatures for very specific reasons. During the age of dinosaurs, creatures ...