Hundreds of vendors from dozens of countries converged in Tucson, Arizona, for the annual Gem and Mineral Show, where the best and most impressive ...

The lumbar spine includes the five vertebrae in your lower back numbered L1 to L5. These bones help provide mobility and stability to your back and spinal column and are an attachment point for many ...

Symptoms develop when the cartilage discs between the bones of the cervical spine (called vertebrae) deteriorate or become damaged. With age, these gel-like discs can also dry out, causing them to ...

Morocco is uniquely rich in mosasaur fossils, says Henry Sharpe at the University of Alberta in Canada. “Miners working in the phosphate mines come across mosasaurs all the time.” The problem ...

Mosasaur fossil may be a forgery, researchers claim CT scans needed to verify authenticity of the fossil Fossil from Morocco raises concerns over scientific integrity ...

The original study introduced Xenodens calminechari as a one-of-a-kind species of mosasaur, a predatory marine reptile that dominated the oceans during the Cretaceous period.

Skull based on reconstruction from Street and Caldwell (2017). The number of vertebrae based on photos of almost complete skeleton of Mosasaurus missouriensis (TMP 2012.010.0001) which gives a rather ...

In 2021, scientists identified a new mosasaur species upon the discovery of a Cretaceous-period jaw with unusual teeth in a Moroccan mine. There’s only one problem—the remains may have been ...

This 72-million-year-old mosasaur fossil once believed to be a new species, was recently determined in a new study to potentially be a forgery. Scientists are asking for more high-tech CT scans to ...

Lucy Randleas had two fractured vertebrae and a stretched spinal cord. She quickly underwent spinal fusion surgery. Lucy Randleas recovers at Portneuf Medical Center in Pocatello, Idaho ...

Mosasaurus was an apex predator of the late Cretaceous period ... Famed for its extraordinarily long neck, which could consist of nearly 50 vertebrae, Elasmosaurus measured around 34 feet in length.

A mosasaur species with saw-like teeth that was described by scientists in 2021 may have been based on forged fossils, and researchers are now calling for CT scans to determine the creature's origin.