Steven Cruz changed his usual route because he was tired, and he did not regret it.He accidentally found a piece of
At 100 meters away, he found the rest of the fossilized bones that belong to the mosasaurus. This is a huge 10-meter sea lizard that lived in the seas about 80 million years ago.
Recently, paleontologists at the Perot Museum of Nature and Science dug up fossils from the soft, clay-like rock of the creek bed. They unearthed parts of the mosasaur's skull, mandibular bones, and several vertebrae.
This is important work for scientists: although mosasaurs are extinct, studying their past canto give us a glimpse into the present. Understanding what ancient creatures ate and how they interacted with their environment will helppaleontologists to learn more about what life was like for millions of yearsBack.
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