'Nightmarish' sea lizard with dagger-like teeth 'ruled oceans 66m years ago'

Khinjaria belongs to a family of giant marine lizards known as mosasaurs, the ancient relatives of today’s Komodo dragons and anacondas

An artist’s impression of Khinjaria acuta (Andrey Atuchin/University of Bath)

Scientists have discovered fossil remains of a “nightmarish” new sea lizard species with dagger-like teeth that dominated the oceans 66 million years ago.

Khinjaria acuta would have lived alongside dinosaurs, co-existing with behemoths such as Tyrannosaurus and Triceratops.