New species of Cretaceous Mosasaur discovered in Morocco – The North Africa Post

Researchers from several countries have recently discovered in Morocco a new species of Mosasaur, a marine lizard with shark-like cutting teeth, which lived during the Cretaceous period 72 to 66 million years ago.
In a study recently published in «Cretaceous Research» Journal and quoted by GEO Magazine, researchers from the French National Museum of Natural History (CNRS), Sorbonne University, including Moroccan paleontologist Nour-Eddine Jalil, from the University of Bath (Great Britain) and the…

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