How to Use mosasaur in a Sentence

mosasaur

noun

• The mosasaur fossils Kruse found were jutting out of the rocky creek bed.
  — Dallas News, 2 Aug. 2022
• The mosasaur’s skull sat in the prep lab of the New Jersey State Museum.
  — Brian Switek, WIRED, 11 Apr. 2012
• The Paleo Lab team made great progress on the Ovilla #mosasaur block over the past week.
  — Ariana Garcia, Chron, 2 Aug. 2022
• 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
• 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
• The first mosasaur vertebrae of the day was found sitting on a pedestal by Benji Deason of Trussville.
  — Dennis Pillion | [e-mail], al, 9 Dec. 2021
• But big things in the ocean, like mosasaurs, which weren’t actually dinosaurs, all go extinct.
  — Mike Hettwer, National Geographic, 30 Sep. 2017
• Paleontologists don’t know for sure the egg came from a mosasaur.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 June 2020
• The plesiosaur to be displayed will be positioned by a mosasaur specimen.
  — Jack Dura, The Seattle Times, 15 Jan. 2018
• 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
• Despite the fact that mosasaurs and plesiosaurs terrorized the ancient oceans of the planet, they are not considered dinosaurs.
  — Fox News, 30 Apr. 2020
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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 | [e-mail], al, 5 Aug. 2021
• What the researchers discovered is that this animal shares some traits with an earlier form of mosasaur known as Clidastes and other traits with a later mosasaur known as Mosasaurus.
  — Jeanne Timmons, Ars Technica, 30 Oct. 2023
• 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
• 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
• Paleontologists believe the largest mosasaur yet discovered would have been about 56 feet long.
  — Dennis Pillion | [e-mail], al, 9 Dec. 2021
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• This mosasaur, a predator that must have terrorized the Cretaceous marine community, had some interesting dental work.
  — Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 10 Oct. 2023
• 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

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024