Word: mosasaurs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This summer an employe of a U.S. cosmetics company, digging for betonite near Morden, Man., struck fossils. Paleontologist C.M. Sternberg of Ottawa's National Museum rushed thither, exhumed two 35-ft. mosasaur skeletons, declared them the best of the genus ever found in Canada...
Manitoba. First discovery of a mosasaur skull was made in 1780 by quarrymen near Maestrict, Holland. The fossil started a lawsuit, attained such fame that a French general attacking Maestrict ordered his gunners not to molest the house containing it. Cruising the shallow seas of the Chalk Age (60-100 million years ago), the mosasaurs, though true reptiles, were completely aquatic. Their legs had become flippers. They had formidably toothed mouths which a specially jointed lower jaw enabled them to open very wide. The smallest species was eight feet long, the largest more than 40. The big ones could swallow...
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