Tylosaurus

Yeah.

They found that of the four that they looked at, two, Platycarpus, which is a widespread and not terribly big mosasaur, and Tylosaurus, which is a terribly big mosasaur.

These two were good at lunging.

They have larger tail displacement areas, just like that area of the tail.

These two seem to perform very well in this lunge model.

The article describes Tylosaurus as being able to propel itself as much as 15 miles per hour in a lunge, which is so zero to 15 is really what we're talking about.

Yeah.

And they found a significantly less impressive performance in Mosasaurus and Plotosaurus.

How come Archelon was so big even though he didn't have many predators? So I think it probably had a few predators.

So when we think about like the Mosasaurus, Plesiosaurus, Tylosaurus, the waters are just a dangerous place for any kind of creature.

I think anybody was, even Mosasaurus.

I mean, if you had something that was really hungry and it kind of came up on you, I think anything would attack anything down there.

Prefiere las ballenas y, por supuesto, no duda en tragarse a otro de los suyos.

¿Cómo hace? Arranca embistiendo al oponente con su nariz, un rasgo heredado de otra especie antigua de mosasaurio, el Tylosaurus.

Este poseía una protuberancia ósea que protegía sus dientes de lateros y era una pieza fundamental de su hocico acorazado.

Ese hocico huesudo es una valiosa adaptación que el mosasaurio actual debió adquirir con el transcurso de múltiples oleadas evolutivas.

Deinosuchus, a terrifyingly enormous crocodile native to coastal marshes.

And Tylosaurus, a deadly meat-eating reptile.

Awesome.

While I really do love all the dinos, there's still lots of other things you can see throughout the museum.