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New giant mosasaur species unearthed in Morocco

Paleontologists have identified a massive new species of mosasaur from Morocco’s Late Cretaceous phosphate deposits, shedding fresh light on the remarkable diversity of marine reptiles just before the dinosaurs went extinct. The species, Pluridens imelaki, was described in a study published this week in the journal Diversity. The newly named reptile belonged to Pluridens, a […]