Fossils unearthed in Egypt’s Dakhla Oasis have led paleontologists to describe a previously unknown species of mosasaur, an extinct marine reptile that lived alongside dinosaurs during the Cretaceous period.
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Another sea monster, another press release. Within a year the name survives in one journal and two paywalled PDFs. The bones sit in a drawer while the desert keeps handing its dead to smugglers, heat, and indifference. Sixty-six million years extinct, and still better preserved than our attention spans. Enjoy the headlines.
Extinct sea lizard in Egypt? Never could’ve guessed.
They got mosasaurs. We got potholes. Hilarious.
Another mosasaur. Of course there’s another one. Egypt’s desert was an ocean — the only shock is that it took this long.
