How to Use mosasaur in a Sentence

mosasaur

noun
  • In broad strokes, mosasaurs tend to share the same body shape.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2024
  • The mosasaur fossils Kruse found were jutting out of the rocky creek bed.
    — Dallas News, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Nearly 70 million years ago, mosasaurs were the stuff of nightmares.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 12 Dec. 2025
  • Paleontologists don’t know for sure the egg came from a mosasaur.
    — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 June 2020
  • The bone had come from a large mosasaur, and further examination of the site turned up part of a mosasaur’s jaw.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Nov. 2021
  • The video depicts a Mosasaurus – a large mosasaur that is thought to be related to whales and dolphins.
    — Eleanor McCrary, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2023
  • But big things in the ocean, like mosasaurs, which weren’t actually dinosaurs, all go extinct.
    — Mike Hettwer, National Geographic, 30 Sep. 2017
  • The Paleo Lab team made great progress on the Ovilla #mosasaur block over the past week.
    — Ariana Garcia, Chron, 2 Aug. 2022
  • Tylosaurus was previously thought to be a less diverse genus than other mosasaurs.
    — Mindy Weisberger, CNN Money, 28 May 2026
  • Regardless of how many times large mosasaurs independently evolved, the lizards thrived in the seas.
    — Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2024
  • Although mosasaurs did not survive past the K-Pg event, their story has not fizzled out.
    — Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 22 Dec. 2023
  • The plesiosaur to be displayed will be positioned by a mosasaur specimen.
    — Jack Dura, The Seattle Times, 15 Jan. 2018
  • Eustace also had a shorter tail than many other mosasaurs, and flippers with less cartilage and more bone.
    — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The mosasaur’s skull sat in the prep lab of the New Jersey State Museum.
    — Brian Switek, WIRED, 11 Apr. 2012
  • There was the mosasaur — a giant toothy marine reptile (and a surprise hero in Jurassic World).
    — Ari Daniel, NPR, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Dinosaur fans know that late Cretaceous-era waters were ruled by sharp-toothed sharks and sea reptiles known as mosasaurs and plesiosaurs.
    — CBS News, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Dinosaur fans know that late Cretaceous-era waters were ruled by sharp-toothed sharks and sea reptiles known as mosasaurs and plesiosaurs.
    — ABC News, 23 Apr. 2026
  • In any case, the recent discovery suggests the only way to avoid some mosasaurs was to stay out of the water altogether.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 12 Dec. 2025
  • The first mosasaur vertebrae of the day was found sitting on a pedestal by Benji Deason of Trussville.
    — Dennis Pillion | [email protected], al, 9 Dec. 2021
  • Despite the fact that mosasaurs and plesiosaurs terrorized the ancient oceans of the planet, they are not considered dinosaurs.
    — Fox News, 30 Apr. 2020
  • The oceans were still dominated by other marine animals like sharks, rays, and aquatic reptiles like mosasaurs.
    — Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 14 May 2020
  • While mosasaurs lived alongside dinosaurs, the aquatic predators were not dinosaurs and were instead closely related to snakes and lizards.
    — Ariana Garcia, Chron, 18 Sep. 2024
  • Turns out, the fossil was a soft-shell egg — the largest-ever discovered — possibly laid by a massive marine reptile known as the mosasaur.
    — Joshua Bote, USA TODAY, 19 June 2020
  • The mosasaur has henchman spinosaurs – a nice touch – while a titanosaurus couple shares a loving moment (which gets interrupted by some pesky humans).
    — Brian Truitt, USA Today, 2 July 2025
  • The gigantic mosasaur lived at the end of the Cretaceous period, around 66 million years ago.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
  • Paleontologists believe the largest mosasaur yet discovered would have been about 56 feet long.
    — Dennis Pillion | [email protected], al, 9 Dec. 2021
  • In addition to land dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurs and Triceratops, the region was also home to aquatic species like mosasaurs.
    — Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 12 Dec. 2025
  • These massive mollusks may even have eaten large aquatic reptiles like mosasaurs and plesiosaurs, which were themselves believed to be among the main marine predators of the time.
    — Adam England, PEOPLE, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Other grievances include the fact that mosasaurs, the movie’s main species, aren’t actually dinosaurs and that, no, dinosaurs didn’t live to be centuries old because of their big hearts.
    — The Editors, Vulture, 17 Nov. 2025
  • Bailey and other fossils are much more likely to find a tooth or even a fragment of jawbone from a mosasaur as happened on one of the excursions in early July.
    — Dennis Pillion | [email protected], al, 5 Aug. 2021

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