Mosasaurus
At a glance
- Scientific name
- Mosasaurus
- Continent
- Africa, Asia, Europe, North America, Oceania, South America
- Group
- Marine reptile
- Period
- Cretaceous
- Diet
- Carnivore
- Length
- Large (9–20 m)
- Moves
- Swims
- Feature
- Nothing special
- Difficulty in WildGuessr
- Medium
Did you know?
- Its name means Meuse lizard, after the river near which its first skull was found in the 1700s.
- It was not a dinosaur but a giant sea lizard, related to today's monitor lizards and snakes.
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Classification, names and conservation status come from Wikidata (CC0), the photo from Wikimedia Commons. Wikidata Q312131 · All prehistoric life · All entries