A team of paleontologists unearthed Thalassotitan atrox, a massive new mosasaur from Morocco.
) and cruel or merciless . But was this clearly massive creature as ferocious as it seems? Polcyn admits that some of the evidence is “circumstantial” at best.— believed to be part of the creature’s last supper — were not actually found in its gut. That mosasaurs did eat other mosasaurs and a bounty of other sea creatures is clear, as they have been found in fossilized guts in the past. But in this case, the evidence isn’t so definitive.
. To paleontologist Takuya Konishi, an assistant professor in the department of biological sciences at the University of Cincinnati who has studied mosasaurs for nearly two decades, the new fossils very closely resemble“The bulk of the features are basically found in this other species of mosasaur,” he says.
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