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Mosasaurs were a diverse group of marine reptiles that lived during the Cretaceous period. The largest grew to 17 metres. They went extinct 66 million years ago during the K-Pg event.

(Credit Thomas Miller)

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2021-06-28

this took sooo long to make, like over 10 hours. probably not gonna do this shading style again, but I like how the sea life came out, especially the mosasaurs

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2021-06-18

Quick Mosasaurs drawing maybe I might do something with it

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2021-05-24

Mosasaurs with long necks was an interesting speculation for its time.

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2021-05-15

Quick Gnathomortis stadtmani portrait !
Fossil evidence shows that the teeth of mosasaurs, like those of other squamates, were concealed by their gums. The gums retract when they bite on their prey to reveal the teeth.

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2021-05-12

Had a great time talking about Thren cuisine, centipedes & Penguin-Mosasaurs.. I mean the of w/ y’all! Fantastic interview! :D the true monster of the setting tho is imperialism & exploitive capitalism! Harder to make an ink drawing of that tho! XD https://t.co/Ml4kEsjM8z

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2021-04-24

“Mosasaurs or plesiosaurs???” 😤😡

Neither, Shonisaurus supremacy 😎

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2021-03-31

Results from the "animals that lived with mosasaurs" stream. Stratodus, Aquilolamna, Allopleuron and Hungarosaurus.

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2021-03-27

Two more morning speedpaints/sketches for Two early mosasaurs, top: Pannionisaurus, bottom: Tethysaurus

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2021-03-24

Apparently it's

Here is Plotosaurus, one of my fav mosasaurs and one of my research subjects.

Formerly Kolposaurus, but turns out the name was taken, Plotosaurus is a really unique mosasaur in that it has exceedingly derived aquatic characters. The fishy boi.

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2021-03-24

It's Post your mosasaur work and get ready for a big fat mosasaur stream on the weekend!

Xenodens, Tylosaurus, Globidens and Prognathodon.

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2021-03-23

Sci-fi author Harry Harrison (1925-2012) was born on this day. Readers of this feed might best know him as the author of the "Eden" trilogy which features dinosaurs & sentient terrestrial mosasaurs.

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2021-03-12

This Wednesday I'm giving a talk on Dutch mosasaurs. How can we use CT scans and data on soft tissues (e.g. brains, nerves, injuries, diseases) to tell something about their lifestyle? Its only in Dutch. The first part has been published though. See https://t.co/HGUG7pEZeC

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2021-02-16

More paleoart commissions of T.rex for a cool museum! I’m thankful for any paleoart work. Truly. But it’s ironic how I keep doing all these carnivores (it’s mostly rex and mosasaurs lately) yet no museum or researcher has asked me for ceratopsians. 🦖

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2021-01-15

Hoploparia are represented by some really cool fossils in Canada, like this one! They also might have been occasional prey for mosasaurs https://t.co/F9MvtEZT59

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2020-11-21

day 21: today’s is a quicker sketch because online school is killing me. These are Mosasaurs hunting in a family group, based on how intelligent Mosasaurs could have been!

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2020-09-21

I missed but I'm going to cheat with

Something that became striking to me recently is that mosasaurs ascribed to the genus Tylosaurus have an incredibly long temporal range.

Coniacian to the Maastrichtian

That's like 22 million years.

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2020-04-29