{"id":1198005,"date":"2023-10-30T16:54:50","date_gmt":"2023-10-30T20:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1198005"},"modified":"2023-10-30T16:54:50","modified_gmt":"2023-10-30T20:54:50","slug":"fossil-found-on-the-side-of-the-road-is-a-new-species-of-mosasaur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1198005","title":{"rendered":"Fossil found on the side of the road is a new species of mosasaur"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In 2015, Deborah Shepherd returned to the site where she and other volunteers had worked on a public fossil dig<\/a> with family members. That\u2019s when she saw it: a fossil lying there, exposed on the surface. Most people would not have recognized it for what it was: It wasn\u2019t a skull, a leg bone, or even a partial jaw. It was just a chunk of bone.<\/p>\n

Shepherd immediately notified a park ranger. That ranger then notified the North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources. Her actions ultimately led to the discovery of what scientists say is not only a new species, but an entirely new genus of mosasaur, a giant marine predator from Late Cretaceous seas. Bite marks preserved on the fossil also suggest that it met its end at the hands\u2014or rather teeth\u2014of another mosasaur.<\/p>\n

Meet Jorgie the mosasaur<\/h2>\n

The new mosasaur was described Monday in the Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. J\u01ebrmungandr walhallaensis<\/i>, or “Jorgie” for short, is the name suggested by co-author Clint Boyd, and it\u2019s steeped in Norse mythology. J\u01ebrmungandr is the name of a sea serpent who circles the world with its body, clasping its tail in its jaws.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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