Celebrating Mosasaurs at the Rutgers Geology Museum

The Unveiling of the Restored Painting in the background. In order from Left to Right: Artist Jeanne Filler Scott, former Geology Museum Director Bill Selden, Graduate Student Amelia Zietlow from the American Museum of Natural History, and current Geology Museum Director Lauren Adamo

By Carol Peters, EOAS Communications At the 150th anniversary of the Rutgers Geology Museum, Mosasaurs, giant lizards who lived at the time of the dinosaurs, were explored and celebrated. Mosasaurs were enormous lizards and apex predators who ruled the Earth’s waters at the time of the dinosaurs, at the very end of the cretaceous period ~95-66 million years ago. The …