#mosasaur

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Only two pieces tonight on #paleostream

Funnily quite similar in lighting conditions :P

First is the Hell Creek freshwater mosasaur second is Kaatedocus, taking into account the recently described melanosomes and their potential for coloration.

[thedrawinggizzard]

First big(ish) paleoart piece of the year: a Mosasaurus Hoffmannii. Its patterns are inspired by rainbow trout, with a bit of influence from the Prehistoric Planet mosa.

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Mosasaurs by Julio Lacerda 

[herpsandbirds]

66-Million-Year-Old Mystery Fossil Known Only As ‘The Thing’ Turns Out To Be Prehistoric Sea Lizard Egg

The largest reptile egg in recorded history has officially been discovered in Antarctica. The football-sized specimen is the first known fossilized soft-shell egg ever found on the continent, and is believed to have been laid by an extinct sea lizard around 66 million years ago. Published in the journal Nature, the research indicates a giant marine reptile known as a mosasaur most likely laid this egg. For lead author and postdoctoral researcher at the University of Texas Austin’s School of Geosciences, Lucas Legendre, the discovery is remarkable in several significant ways. “It is from an animal the size of a large dinosaur, but it is completely unlike a dinosaur egg,” said Legendre. “It is most similar to the eggs of lizards and snakes, but it is from a truly giant relative of these animals.” Most remarkably, before this stunning find, it was generally believed that giant marine reptiles from the Cretaceous Period didn’t lay eggs. According to Legendre, “nothing like this has ever been discovered”...

Read more: https://allthatsinteresting.com/antarctica-prehistoric-sea-lizard-egg

illustration by Francisco Hueichaleo

[santeri-panteri]

quick sketchdump of some extinct things

Megapterygius, Cymbospondylus, Patagotitan and Allosaurus

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Deep in the Aether

[Image ID: A digital illustration depicting a family of Mosasaurs swimming vertically downwards into flowing seaweed, with stars rising up around them and sending droplets upwards. The mosasaurs, a marine reptile with a long body, four rounded flippers, and a shark-like tail are light cyan. They swim against a black and green backdrop, surrounded by blue weedy plants. End ID.]

[alphynix]

Ancient seas get a new T. rex as massive mosasaur emerges from Texas fossils

There's a new T. rex in the fossil record, only this one terrorized the ancient seas. New research led by scientists at the American Museum

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🐟 - prehistoric marine animals