Scientists Finally Found The First Hump-backed Mosasaur 

Mosasaurs were the biggest nastiest inhabitants of the Cretaceous seas. They had a long powerful tail to propel themselves towards their prey. They had huge flippers for expertly maneuvering through the water to keep up with their prey. And they had teeth on the roof of their mouths to make sure that prey never escaped. However, it seems that all mosasaurs looked the same. All were big monitor lizard looking things with round flippers and a shark tail. That’s what has been traditionally thought anyway. A brand-new mosasaur from Japan turns this assumption on its head. Let’s meet Megapterygius.
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Takuya Konishi, Masaaki Ohara, Akihiro Misaki, Hiroshige Matsuoka, Hallie P. Street & Michael W. Caldwell (2023) A new derived mosasaurine (Squamata: Mosasaurinae) from south-western Japan reveals unexpected postcranial diversity among hydropedal mosasaurs, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 21:1, 2277921, DOI: 10.1080/14772019.2023.2277921
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