Apr 26, 2016
Recently our campaign was noticed by North Dakota's television station KYFR. Here is a video and write up on our crowdfunding campaign on the wonderful cretaceous marine reptiles, the mosasaurs. Clint Boyd was able sit down and spread the good word about our project. Without your donations we cannot begin to tell the narrative on these apex predators that swam the inland seas millions of years ago! - Nathan VV.
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Mosasaurs were apex predators of the Late Cretaceous seas closely related to modern lizards, like the Komodo dragon. During the Late Cretaceous, much of North Dakota was covered by a warm, shallow sea. The Pierre Shale formation, deposited in that sea, preserves some of the last mosasaurs that lived before their extinction, but North Dakota’s record is unstudied. This project will clarify what mosasaur species lived in North Dakota and what these fossils tell us about this ancient ecosystem.
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