GARLAND - Digging for Late Cretaceous fossils in Garland? That's exactly what more than two dozen volunteers did Sunday while in the hot heat.

The dig began after a Garland resident discovered a mosasaur near his home along Duck Creek.

The Dallas paleontological society members worked 400 hours to excavate the bones of the creature.

While mosasaurs weren't dinosaurs, they were lepidosaurs, which were reptiles with overlapping scales. The carnivorous sea reptiles swam in an ocean that scientists believe covered Texas millions of years ago.