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Mosasaurus (/ ˌ m oʊ z ə ˈ s ɔːr ə s /; "lizard of the Meuse River") is the type genus (defining example) of the mosasaurs, an extinct group of aquatic squamate reptiles.It lived from about 82 to 66 million years ago during the Campanian and Maastrichtian stages of the Late Cretaceous.
The second species named in 1904, B. isis, lived in the region currently known as the Mediterranean Sea, with fossils found in North Africa and Jordan. Basilosaurus is thought to have been one of the largest animals of the Paleogene , with the type species B. cetoides measuring around 17–20 metres (56–66 ft) long and weighing up to 15 ...
Murray River: Predates uplift of Australian Alps [8] Nile: 75~65 Mediterranean Sea: 65 to 75 for the Sudd section; the rest of the river is only 1 or 2 million years old [9] Thames: 58 North Sea: Late Palaeocene Period Thanetian Stage [10] Indus (Sindhu) 45 Arabian Sea: Source in the Himalayas and Karakoram Mountains [11] Tyne: 30 North Sea
Thalattosaurus (pronounced: / θ ə ˌ l æ t ə ˈ s ɔːr ə s /, "tha-la-to-SORE-us") meaning "sea lizard," from the Attic Greek thalatta (θάλαττα), "sea," and sauros (σαῦρος), "lizard," is an extinct genus of marine reptile in the family Thalattosauroidea. They were aquatic diapsids that are known exclusively from the Triassic ...
The Turonian-aged skull of T. sp. aff. kansasensis (SGM-M1) is one of the oldest known fossils of Tylosaurus. Tylosaurus was among the earliest derived mosasaurs. The oldest fossil attributable to the genus is a premaxilla ( TMM 40092-27) recovered from Middle Turonian deposits of the Arcadia Park Shale in Texas , [ 2 ] which is dated between ...
Sea turtles: there are seven extant species of sea turtles, which live mostly along the tropical and subtropical coastlines, though some do migrate long distances and have been known to travel as far north as Scandinavia. Sea turtles are largely solitary animals, though some do form large, though often loosely connected groups during nesting ...
Rosa was adopted by the Monterey Bay Aquarium in 1999 and served as surrogate mother for a record 15 otters. She outlived the life expectancy for wild southern sea otters.
Nyasasaurus (meaning "Lake Nyasa lizard") is an extinct genus of avemetatarsalian archosaur from the putatively Middle Triassic Manda Formation of Tanzania that may be the earliest known dinosaur. The type species Nyasasaurus parringtoni was first described in 1956 in the doctoral thesis of English paleontologist Alan J. Charig , but it was not ...