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The Skin and Scales of Sea Monsters

When Mosasaurs Ruled the Seas: Apex Predators of the Cretaceous Ocean

Picture a world where colossal marine reptiles the size of modern whales cruised through warm, shallow seas that split entire continents in half. This wasn’t science fiction – this was reality roughly eighty million years ago, during the Late Cretaceous period, when Earth’s oceans belonged to the mosasaurs. With double-hinged jaws, sharp conical teeth, and ...