How to Use mosasaur in a Sentence
mosasaur
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The mosasaur fossils Kruse found were jutting out of the rocky creek bed.
—Dallas News, 2 Aug. 2022
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The mosasaur’s skull sat in the prep lab of the New Jersey State Museum.
—Brian Switek, WIRED, 11 Apr. 2012
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The Paleo Lab team made great progress on the Ovilla #mosasaur block over the past week.
—Ariana Garcia, Chron, 2 Aug. 2022
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The video depicts a Mosasaurus – a large mosasaur that is thought to be related to whales and dolphins.
—Eleanor McCrary, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2023
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The bone had come from a large mosasaur, and further examination of the site turned up part of a mosasaur’s jaw.
—Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Nov. 2021
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The first mosasaur vertebrae of the day was found sitting on a pedestal by Benji Deason of Trussville.
—Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al, 9 Dec. 2021
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But big things in the ocean, like mosasaurs, which weren’t actually dinosaurs, all go extinct.
—Mike Hettwer, National Geographic, 30 Sep. 2017
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Paleontologists don’t know for sure the egg came from a mosasaur.
—Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 June 2020
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The plesiosaur to be displayed will be positioned by a mosasaur specimen.
—Jack Dura, The Seattle Times, 15 Jan. 2018
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The mosasaur uncovered in North Dakota was a large one, identified as either Prognathodon or Mosasaurus in the new paper.
—Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Nov. 2021
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Despite the fact that mosasaurs and plesiosaurs terrorized the ancient oceans of the planet, they are not considered dinosaurs.
—Fox News, 30 Apr. 2020
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Turns out, the fossil was a soft-shell egg — the largest-ever discovered — possibly laid by a massive marine reptile known as the mosasaur.
—Joshua Bote, USA TODAY, 19 June 2020
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In a waterfront summer house in Massachusetts, the shield and horns of a Triceratops skull greet weekend guests in the foyer, and a 17-foot-long mosasaur, a giant lizard of the sea, hangs from the living room ceiling.
—Richard Conniff, National Geographic, 25 Sep. 2019
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Based on an analysis of 259 modern reptiles and their eggs, an ancient beast known as a mosasaur would seem to match description, according to SWNS.
—Fox News, 18 June 2020
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In the latter, the absurdly gigantic mosasaur (which technically wasn’t even a dinosaur) snacking on great white sharks didn’t grow longer than about 50 feet from head to tail.
—Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian, 12 June 2018
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Bailey and other fossils are much more likely to find a tooth or even a fragment of jawbone from a mosasaur as happened on one of the excursions in early July.
—Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al, 5 Aug. 2021
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The second discovery is another soft-shelled egg that researchers have attributed to a kind of giant marine reptile called a mosasaur.
—Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 June 2020
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The oceans were still dominated by other marine animals like sharks, rays, and aquatic reptiles like mosasaurs.
—Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 14 May 2020
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Paleontologists believe the largest mosasaur yet discovered would have been about 56 feet long.
—Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com, al, 9 Dec. 2021
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Earlier this year, scientists announced the discovery of a new giant sea lizard — a mosasaur — known as Thalassotitan atrox.
—Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 14 Oct. 2022
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Researchers have discovered a new species of mosasaur, a terrifying prehistoric reptile that lived during the age of dinosaurs, in Morocco.
—Chris Ciaccia, Fox News, 8 Oct. 2020
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The study documents some fragmentary marine fossils, including the teeth of ancient sharks, aquatic reptiles called mosasaurs, and an extinct type of mollusk called an ammonite.
—Michael Greshko, National Geographic, 31 Mar. 2019
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Existing in a warm, shallow seaway between today’s Rocky and Appalachian mountains, plesiosaurs lived alongside mosasaurs, the apex predator of their day, resembling a type of watery Komodo dragon.
—Jack Dura, The Seattle Times, 15 Jan. 2018
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Most Mesozoic-Era ocean-dwelling creatures were actually marine reptiles called plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurs, or mosasaurs, which, despite their appearance, are not considered dinosaurs.
—Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 30 Apr. 2020
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