New mosasaur named for a mythical Norse sea serpent #paleontology

Did you know? Mosasaurs’ closest living relatives are today’s lizards and snakes! Meet Amelia Zietlow, a comparative biology student in the Museum’s Richard Gilder Graduate School. She studies the evolution, ontogeny, morphology, and intraspecific variation of lizards and snakes, particularly mosasaurs. Many thanks to the North Dakota Geological Survey for the Jormungandr walhallaensis footage! #fossils #womeninstem

[AJBD]

Well done short. Would be incredible if we could get one of these every week or two.

Just some well put together information, shared and explained gracefully.

Hopefully enough others give this the thumb. Moar pleeze!

[weakly]

Oh my god it’s Amelia from the famed YouTube channel The Skeleton Crew

[Gorgonopsidcommenter]

Hey thats Amelia! From the Skeleton Crew!

[DreadEnder]

Not really as “alongside” as other animals but still the same time and any have occasionally interacted

[nobletrashspencer]

Do you think naming it this will confuse future historians? -a dude that has a history degree

[amisfitpuivk]

so did this lead to any modern animals like a gator/croc maybe or did their line end? I know gators are very ancient, but maybe they're cousins

[thearaucariafarmer]

This is a wonderful video. Thank you for showing off this amazing ancient biology. Please more shorts of fossils like this (inverts too ☺️ if y'all want)

[thomassizemore]

Wahalla like as in South Carolina Wahalla?