May 14, 2021 04:22 PM EDT
End of the Cretaceous period giant mosasaur in Morocco that could have gotten to eight meters long is the third new species to be identified from the region in less than a year, bringing the sum of up to at least 13 species.
(Photo : Joe Boyne)
Giant Marine Lizards
The high diversity of the fauna reveals how mosasaurs, giant marine lizards related to Komodo dragons and snakes, flourished in the last million years of the Cretaceous period before they were wiped out with most of all species on Earth, by the giant asteroid impact 66 million years ago.
The new species, called