Mosasaurs3

===**They are extinct marine reptiles that are believed to be distantly related to monitor lizards such as the Komodo Dragon.** Based on recent evidence, however, it may be that they were even more closely related to snakes than monitor lizards. The discovery and study of mosasaurs near Maastricht in Europe in the 50 years. **A few years later, in a series of scientific expeditions sponsored by O. C. Marsh and Yale University, hundreds of specimens were collected. As a group, the fossilized remains of mosasaurs had been found all over the world, from Kansas to South Dakota to North Dakota to Montana to New Mexico to Colorado to Texas to Arkansas to Tennessee to Georgia to Alabama to New Jersey to California, to Canada, from the Netherlands to Sweden, from Turkey to Israel to Africa, and from Brazil to Peru to Australia and New Zealand to the islands off the coast of Antarctica. **===