What are mosasaurs?

Mosasaurs were large, serpentine marine reptiles that lived during the Late Cretaceous period. They were not dinosaurs, but lepidosaurs, and their closest living relatives are snakes. Mosasaurs had a loose jaw and consumed large amounts of fish, and some species also ate sea urchins and mollusks. They moved through the water using only the waving […]

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