Editing Mosasaur (section)

===Coloration===
The coloration of mosasaurs was unknown until 2014, when the findings of Johan Lindgren of [[Lund University]] and colleagues revealed the pigment [[melanin]] in the fossilized scales of a mosasaur. Mosasaurs were likely [[countershaded]], with dark backs and light underbellies, much like a [[great white shark]] or [[leatherback sea turtle]], the latter of which had fossilized ancestors for which color was also determined. The findings were described in ''[[Nature (journal)|Nature]]''.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Lindgren |first1=J. |last2=Sjövall |first2=P. |last3=Carney |first3=R. M. |last4=Uvdal |first4=P. |last5=Gren |first5=J. A. |last6=Dyke |first6=G. |last7=Schultz |first7=B. P. |last8=Shawkey |first8=M. D. |last9=Barnes |first9=K. R. |year=2014 |title=Skin pigmentation provides evidence of convergent melanism in extinct marine reptiles |journal=Nature |volume=506 |issue=7489 |pages=484–8 |doi=10.1038/nature12899 |pmid=24402224 |last10=Polcyn |first10=M. J.|bibcode=2014Natur.506..484L |s2cid=4468035 }}</ref>