Japanese Researchers Identify New Mosasaur Species Following Fossil Preparation Advances

By Munis Raza · Interesting Engineering · 2026-07-21

Japanese Researchers Identify New Mosasaur Species Following Fossil Preparation Advances

According to reporting from Interesting Engineering, a set of 70-million-year-old skeletal fragments stored in a Kishiwada City museum for three decades likely belongs to a previously undocumented marine predator. Scientists at the Okayama University of Science utilized modern cl

According to reporting from Interesting Engineering, a set of 70-million-year-old skeletal fragments stored in a Kishiwada City museum for three decades likely belongs to a previously undocumented marine predator. Scientists at the Okayama University of Science utilized modern cl