Mosasaurus: Lizard King of the Ancient Ocean
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- Опубліковано 25 чер 2022
- Don’t believe everything you see in the movies. Mosasaurs were huge marine reptiles that lived in the Late Cretaceous, alongside dinosaurs-but they were not dinosaurs themselves.
Find out all about mosasaurs-including what scientists are still trying to learn-from Museum graduate student Amelia Zietlow, who recently scanned two mosasaur fossils on display in the Museum’s Hall of Vertebrate Origins as part of her Ph.D. degree at the Museum’s Richard Gilder Graduate School, and her advisor, Curator Meng Jin from the Division of Paleontology.
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Definitely one of the coolest marine reptiles.
Indeed
I have seen Mosasaurs like Tylosaurus and Mosasaurus in the Western Interior Seaway in the Late Cretaceous (Later the Niobara Formation) in Prehistoric Planet (2022) and Prehistoric Planet 2 (2023) in the episodes, "Coasts" and "Oceans." I love Mosasaurs. I am happy they featured them in those episodes in the Western Interior Seaway hunting and eating Plesiosaurs (Another cool group of marine reptiles from the Mesozoic Era) like Elasmosaurus and Tuarangisaurus and mackerel plus Hespronis a type of early bird and theropod. I am also happy "Coasts" and "Oceans" featured two theropod dinosaurs that lived on the shores and islands of the Western Interior Seaway like Tyrannosaurus and Pyroraptor and pterosaurs like Pteranodon and Barbidactylus and the bony fish, Xiphactinus. But I am disappointed that they didn't feature any sharks from the Western Interior Seaway like Cretoxyrhina, Squalicorax and Hybodus. Hello! Do you know how important sharks are to ecosystems in the Late Cretaceous?
Fascinating! Thanks for this. This is the coolest part of the museum.
This video is great. It was the first Dinosaurs and Fossils video to be made since the final episode of Space Vs. Dinos series in terms of dinosaurs and paleontology, "How Long Did a T. rex Live?" which is about the growth of Tyrannosaurus, Tarbosaurus, Daspletosaurus and Gorgosaurus and made in honor of T. rex: The Ulimate Predator. You should make some Dinosaurs and Fossils videos about the dinosaurs and pterosaurs from the Dinosaur Park Formation like Gorgosaurus, Daspletosaurus, Styracosaurus, Centrosaurus, Parasaurolophus, Corythosaurus, Euopephalus, Ornithomimus, Pteranodon, Nyctosaurus and Ciomolestes and their natural history and paleontology and even some videos based on The World of Dinosaurs: An Illustrated Tour, Dinosaurs: New Visions of a Lost World, Mesozoic Art: Dinosaurs and Other Ancient Animals in Art, The End of the Megafauna and The Princeton Field Guides to Pterosaurs and Marine Reptiles and Dinosaur Facts and Figures: The Theropods and other Dinosaurifiormes and Sauropods and other Sauropodmorphs that are similar to nature documentaries and Astronomy Onlines from the American Museum of Natural History or even paleoartists like Charles Knight similar to the Brain Scoop episode, "Paleoart: Painting the Land Before Time."
The real tyrant lizard king
Mosasaurs were gigantic
Please reduce the music level, it it intrusive and occasionally overwhelms the speaker.
This was awesome, Amelia! Will keep a look out for Dr. Zietlow in the near future! :)
3:52 They even have the mosasaur action figure from Jurassic world
This is one of the few channels that claim (rightly) turtles fit inside the archosaurian branch
Jurassic world mosasaurs are cool ❤
One of my fav prehistoric animals!
Yeah, Mosasaurs are among my favorite prehistoric animals alongside theropods, sauropods, ornithschians, pterosaurs, prehistoric sharks and ammonites plus prehistoric mammals. there is an episode from Prehistoric Planet Uncovered (2022-2023) that I watched about Mosasaurs like Tylosaurus and Mosasaurus and their paleontology and natural history and how they are related to lizards (You can tell by the similarties that komodo dragons and montior lizards have to mosasaurs) while plesiosaurs like Elasmosaurus and Tuarangisaurus are related to snakes (You can also tell due to have similar snakes and plesiosaurs look in appearance.) and how they swam in the Western Interior Seaway in the Late Cretaceous (Later the Niobara Formation) and how they hunted their prey like Hespronis, Xiphanctius and Cretoxyrhina and Squalicorax. I recommend that you watch it.
Peace! Even as an adult with a background in Physical Anthropology; I’m excited over this..
Thanks !!
Amazing Channel
I remember a time that we learned in school that the dinosaurs were killed by an asteroid but our teachers wasn't so sure...
Wonderful. Personally, I hold out for ichthyosaurs, but that's just taste. But the imaging you were doing! THAT is the wonder. Are the models viewable on the web?
one of my favorite marine reptiles for sure
Now the ocean belong to jelly.
Nope, sadly the ocean belongs to plastic bags...
@@-_Nuke_- May the best man win.
At 2:34 - which Pachycephalosaurus specimen is this? Is it a replica, or a real fossil?
AMNH 1696. One of my favorites.
@@RoccoDNYC Thank you!
As someone else has pointed out, it is AMNH FARB 1696. That one in the collections is a cast; the real one is on display on the fourth floor.
What if I ever made Mosasaurs the main characters in one of the chapter books I am writing. The main characters in the chapter book I am writing right now are Tyrannosaurus, Tarbosaurus, Yutyrannus, Gorgosaurus, Daspletosaurus, Alectrosaurus, Ornithomimus, Deinocherius, Gigantoraptor, Ticeratops, Anklyosaurus, Centrosaurus, Euopolephalus, Corythosaurus, Parasaurolophus, ammonites, Cretoxyrhina, Squalicorax, Xiphactinus, Tylosaurus, Elasmosaurus, Pterandon and Hespronis and are all part of a club of friends that consist of the species I just mentioned.
Wow, that sounds like a cool book! Mosasaurs are such incredible animals.
What does research about these animals do for us now?
Good question! By comparing mosasaurs to living lizards, we can gain insight to big-picture evolutionary questions that we can't answer from living species alone, like how land animals evolve into aquatic animals.
The purpose of pure science is not look for an application. Sooner or later an application of this kind of researches is found. For instance, the applications of electricity weren't obvious when it was discovered and omg, we really need electricity nowdays. But anyway, your question is a good one and Amelia Zietlow answered it already.
Well, it certainly helps us to learn about how certain species evolved and why they died out, which can have applications for their extant relatives as well.
Thanks for the video and all the challenging work put into these tasks. So I've heard the earth is billions of years old and from some 6000 years old, who really knows the truth. But I've heard an interesting point from a young creationist, its that before the great Noah's ark flood story people lived very long about 1000 years along with reptiles. Also there was more oxygen and this allowed things to grow very big. Interesting points all around
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