The Dallas Morning News turned to an expert on mosasaurs at the University of Cincinnati to discuss the discovery of a new species found in Texas dubbed "the T. rex of the sea."
Researcher Amelia Zietlow at the American Museum of Natural History and her collaborators described a new species of tylosaurus the size of a school bus that patrolled the shallow seas of what is now northern Texas more than 65 million years ago.
The Tylosaurus rex was a mosasaur the size of a school bus that hunted the shallow seas where Texas is today. Photo/Perot Museum of Nature and Science
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