CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – A College of Charleston student found the skeleton of a large sea lizard, and the condition of the fossil is considered to be “extraordinary.”
In May, rising senior and geology major Monika Angner was on the college’s annual Dinosaur Expedition in the Badlands of Wyoming when she found the skeleton of a mosasaur, a giant marine lizard that swam in prehistoric seas.
Her professor of paleobiology and expedition leader, Scott Persons, recalls the excitement when Angner shouted, “Dr. Persons, I think I found something BIG!”…