A mosasaur species with saw-like teeth that was described by scientists in 2021 may have been based on forged fossils, and researchers are now calling for CT scans to determine the creature's origin.

Mosasaur tooth sockets are developed from the bone of the individual teeth, as opposed to the bone of the jaw, explained Michael Caldwell of the University of Alberta, who also contributed to the ...

Each mosasaur tooth corresponds to a pit in the jaw. “Even if the fossil is very poor quality, you can still count the correct number of teeth by counting the number of these pits,” he says.

A diagram showing the size of Khinjaria acutus compared to a human diver for comparison. The mosasaur probably measured around 25 feet in length. Longrich et al., Cretaceous Research 2024 ...

Instead, mosasaurs and other animals – plesiosaurs, giant sea turtles, ammonites, countless species of fish, molluscs, sea urchins, crustaceans – flourished, then died out suddenly when the 10 ...

A mosasaur species with saw-like teeth that was described by scientists in 2021 may have been based on forged fossils, and researchers are now calling for CT scans to determine the creature's origin.

A mosasaur species with saw-like teeth that was described by scientists in 2021 may have been based on forged fossils, and researchers are now calling for CT scans to determine the creature's origin.