Lizard

Earlier this week, Iron Circus Comics launched a new crowdfunding campaign for The Lizard Prince and Other South American Stories, the latest and final volume in the award-winning Cautionary Fables & Fairytales anthology series. Edited and organized by Alberto Rayo, Kel McDonald, and Kate Ashwin, The Lizard Prince includes eleven stories adapted from the folklore of South America. Today The Beat is pleased to present an exclusive excerpt from one of the stories, “A Girl and Her Bird,” by cartoonist Coni Yovaniniz.…

Some 66 million years ago, when the land was ruled by dinosaurs, the oceans used to be infested with giant marine predators called mosasaurs. And, now, researchers have discovered the fossil of a new species of mosasaurs named Thalassotitan atrox. Mosasaurs were like giant marine lizards that could grow up to 12 metres in length. They were distant relatives of modern monitor lizards and iguanas and looked similar to a Komodo dragon. While they were marine, mosasaurs did not have a shark-like fin, instead, they had…

The discovery of incredible fossils of a giant marine lizard reveals how this ancient extinct beast would have ruled the sea 66 million years ago.The beast is a newly discovered species of mosasaur, giant marine reptiles that hunted the oceans during the Late Cretaceous.It's called Thalassotitan atrox, and wear on its teeth along with other remains found at its excavation site suggest that this intimidating animal was no gentle giant – but feasted on difficult prey such as sea turtles, plesiosaurs, and other…

The Amazing Spider-Man duology didn’t capture the imaginations of the public like the Sam Raimi films did, but that doesn’t mean fans aren’t still discussing them, and a new fan theory may change how you see the webslinger. After Spider-Man: No Way Home saw the return of both Garfield and Tobey Maguire’s Spider-Men, fans have been working overtime to fill in the blanks for the two since we last saw them. Garfield’s Spider-Man comments that he went through a dark period focusing on vengeance after Gwen Stacy died,…