Mosasaur

The word mosasaur comes from the Meuse river in France. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Pro from Dover: Cuvier was in correspondence with Camper and eventually came around to his conclusion that the mosasaur was a lizard. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Another one of his discoveries, considered the most complete fossil ever found of an extinct marine lizard called a mosasaur, is displayed next to the pregnant plesiosaur. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The mosasaur is a large marine lizard that lived around the end of the Cretaceous period, about 85 million to 65 million years ago, and inhabited the shallow seas that once covered much of Saskatchewan. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Well, I've done it once myself, describing a new mosasaur genus and species, Selmasaurus russelli. ❋ Greygirlbeast (2010)

And as if that still wasn't cool enough, it was inscribed to me, with a mosasaur illustration! ❋ Corucia (2010)

I should make a post about all the not-so-good mosasaur figurines that have come and gone over the years. ❋ Greygirlbeast (2010)

Finally, someone has made an accurate mosasaur figure! ❋ Greygirlbeast (2010)

A mosasaur seemed the obvious choice, given your half-dozen publications on them! ❋ Corucia (2010)

This is interesting for mosasaur specialists of course, but it also allows me an opportunity to talk about two often-misunderstood terms in evolution - “missing link” and “primitive”. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A new fossil mosasaur, one of a group of non-dinosaurian reptiles that return to marine existence, has been found by an amateur fossil hunter see? ❋ Unknown (2010)

The "traditional" reconstruction looked very reptilian and a bit like a mosasaur. ❋ James Gurney (2009)

Try pushing that name on some puny 17-m-long mosasaur. ❋ Darren Naish (2007)

Anhanguera, a fish-eater, was almost certainly open to scavenging whenever some huge dead mosasaur washed up on the beach. ❋ Peter Bond (2009)

"[look] he swims like a mosasaur" [I want] to be his [friend] ❋ Mr.Snappylv10 (2017)