April 25, 2025: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.

Researchers took a closer look at fossilized footprints—including these cat-like tracks—found at John Day Fossil Beds National Monument in Oregon. National Park Service Between 29 million and ...

The newly discovered vertebra fossil is more than 7 inches (18 centimeters) wide at its widest point. Starnes and his colleagues compared the fossil to the largest mosasaur remains held in the ...

rex around.” A 45-foot-long replica of a fossilized mosasaur skeleton is suspended from the ceiling of the main atrium in the new Earth, Energy and Environment Center at the University of Kansas ...

Among these are fossils from a Mosasaurus, described as a "30-foot long sea-dwelling reptile," found in sea layers of limestone called the Boquillas Formation. Above the Boquillas Formation is the ...

Geologists in Mississippi unearthed a large vertebra belonging to a Mosasaurus hoffmannii, a giant marine reptile from the late Cretaceous period. The discovered vertebra, potentially the largest ...