Mosasaurs

few examples, yeah.

Well, going back to the Mosasaurs, I studied them for my bachelor thesis.

And back in the day, I got some fossils from colleagues in Denmark and tried to find similarities basically between the Danish Mosasaurs compared to the more well-known Dutch dinosaurs, Dutch and Belgian dinosaurs.

Mosasaurs, sorry.

And these, I basically broke off very small pieces of the tooth and did some isotope analysis on these to try to reconstruct where they're basically in the ocean.

Are they closer to the shore? Are they more offshore? And tried to reconstruct where the bigger mosasaurs would be compared to the smaller mosasaurs.

Yeah, and also the plan was to steal the guns and then make off with them from there.

Although really the simplest solution would have been to throw them into the Mosasaur lagoon.

That

is true.

Underutilizing the landscape.

Really feels like we're not getting our full use out of the Mosasaurus, guys.

I do to wonder, though, if Tiff and Mitch would have remained friendly towards the campers and taken them home had they never discovered their dinosaur hunting plans.

I mean, they have to bring dead dinos home somehow, right? And the campers would find out.

have seen him.

I'll buy into all of these, like, dude, there's a Mosasaur in this lake, in every lake, and apparently that has survived forever.

Yep.

I'll buy into all of those.

You can't get me with Bigfoot, dude.

There's actually a Mosasaur in every single lake.

I'd buy it.

See, goblins, they're crafty, they're small, pound for pound, good dots, morally dubious, definitely pulling sumo.

The curator of the Alabama Museum of National History also had a great quote.

Saying Mosasaur is like saying monkey, said Gaddy.

You got monkeys of all types.

Listen, now you're just being a

It weighed about 10,000 pounds.

So it was there between 60 million and 70 million years old.

Are we still going with sea monster or are we? Mosasaur.

Mosasaur.

yeah ridiculous and then that one the one you were talking about which was just really I remember being really really disappointed by it and I think that that was wrapped up with because it was Colin Trevorrow didn't do Star Wars so he ended up doing that I can't remember if he was always going to do that but it was also Covid and it was I mean the half of the film Alan Grant and Ellie Sattler are actually in hazmat suits because it's obviously Covid And then, yeah, the last one, the Gareth Edwards one, I enjoyed, but it's not.

There's bits and pieces that are really good, like the Mosasaur and the water stuff, but it's, again, it's like, the story is just... like what are those, what is that family doing out on that?

Yeah, exactly.

Exactly.

And the article is by Enrico de Lazaro in Sci News.

So, Mosasaurs, or Mosasauroids specifically, are the Mesozoic, the Cretaceous aquatic reptiles, specifically lizards.

These are the... cousins of monitor lizards that became fully aquatic, mostly marine, out in the ocean, open water, fully paddled, fully adapted to life at sea, probably not coming back to land at all.

There are some that seem to have been less marine.

They are not just fully flippered.

They still have legs and arms that are, if not fully terrestrial, more terrestrial looking, more able to walk around looking potentially.

Yeah, it sounds like these may be earlier branches of Mosasaurs.

Not quite full aquatic adaptations like we see later on.

Yeah.

There are Mosasaurs involved.

And like, I know you know enough about dinosaurs to know that you don't fuck with the Mosasaurs.

No, you do not fuck with the

Mosasaurs.

Frankly, I'm going to be real frank with you, Melody.

There's not many dinosaurs that I would say you... fuck with if you ever come face to face

Look, Beatrice is here.

Sure.

There was a, there was a big Mosasaur skeleton, a beaver, a, it's just a bunch of different-

Yeah.

Different stuff-

... you know, John Hammond has to say.

The Mosasaur.

The Mosasaur is one, is one of my favorite guys.

Oh, the, the...

Yeah.

He's in there.

The mosa- and the Mosasaur is a big ass fucking fat lizard, uh, from the cre- and he looks [laughs] fucking hysterical.

Isn't that, isn't that one of the swimming ones?