The partial fossil of a recently discovered mosasaurus was recently discovered at an ammolite mine south of Lethbridge.
It lived in the inland sea that covered Alberta during the Cretaceous Period about 75 million years ago and would often grow to be seven to eight metres long with a skull that was about one metre.
“We’re very fortunate here in Alberta. We get so many fossil types of reptiles,” he said. “We get a bit, I wouldn’t, say blase, but compared to other parts of the world, they would love to have what we have.”“There’s always something new to be learned. One of the things we’ve been tracking the last few years is exactly where in the rock layers they come from. The vertical layer of rock records time,” he explained.
“If you know what the Komodo dragon is like — the world’s biggest living lizard — these things are like Komodo dragons on steroids,” he said. “A big Komodo dragon is about 10 feet these things are three to four times bigger.”We’ve got a couple of specimens with stomach contents so they were chomping down on fish, turtles and other mosasaurs,” he said. “They would eat whatever they could overpower.
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