Mosasaur
On august 25 2000 ingen researchers while testing a prototype iron analyzer discovered traceable dna fragments on a recently uncovered mosasaur specimen. The mosasaurs competed with other marine reptiles the plesiosaurs and. Mosasaur Leviathan Prehistoric Animals Prehistoric Creatures Mosasaurs ranged in size up to 17 metres 56 ft. Mosasaur . Mosasaur had a lizard like but more streamlined body and it was a well adapted cretaceous swimmer and breathed air. It was the discovery of a specimen of mosasaurus in 1764 in a dutch quarry that galvanized scientists into the realization that species could become extinct and that the earth used to be populated by some very strange creatures well before biblical times. Nounany of various extinct carnivorous marine reptiles of the family mosasauridae of the cretaceous period having an elongated body powerful jaws and paddlelike limbs. Based on features such as the double row of pterygoid flanged teeth on the palate the double hinged ja...