Study: Ancient Mosasaurs Gave Birth In Open Sea

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday April 12, 2015 @12:38PM from the we're-going-to-need-a-bigger-doula dept.

An anonymous reader writes A new study published in the journal Palaeontology finds that Mosasaurs, the large marine lizards that once populated the waters about 65 million years ago, gave birth to live young in the open ocean. "Mosasaurs are among the best-studied groups of Mesozoic vertebrate animals, but evidence regarding how they were born and what baby mosasaur ecology was like has historically been elusive," said Daniel Field, lead author of a study published online April 10 in the journal Palaeontology. Field is a doctoral candidate in the lab of Jacques Gauthier in Yale's Department of Geology and Geophysics."

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Re:Stuff that matters? by TapeCutter · 2015-04-12 17:43 · Score: 3, Insightful

Is there any other kind?

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Re:Stuff that matters? by dreamchaser · 2015-04-13 03:00 · Score: 3, Insightful

Truly spoken by someone with a seven digit ID. Anything about dinosaurs or related kin is definitely News for Nerds and as such is Stuff that Matters to many of us who wouldn't have seen it otherwise. Now, get off my lawn.