From Valhalla to Walhalla: This predatory mosasaur hunted Cretaceous seas some 80 million years ago.
No aquatic reptiles today can match mosasaurs, ocean-dwelling creatures of the Cretaceous period that looked something like a cross between a whale and a shark. Now, a group of researchers have discovered a mosasaur that they believe bridges the gap between two iconic species in the ancient group. The newly described mosasaur is Jormungandr walhallaensis, a 24-foot-long 7.
“This fossil is coming from a geologic time in the United States that we don’t really understand,” said study co-author Clint Boyd, a paleontologist with the North Dakota Geological Survey, in the same release. “The more we can fill in the geographic and temporal timeline, the better we can understand these creatures.
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