What If Mosasaurus Were Still Alive?

could a monster be lurking in our oceans and no we're not talking about the Loch Ness monster or the Megalodon we're talking about a creature you've probably never heard of is a Moses or but what's a Moses or could the Moses or have survived the great extinction and if it did how would it change our oceans this is what if and here's what would happen if Mosasaurus were still alive in 2014 a british tourist spotted a strange creature while on a cruise ship in the Gulf of Mexico it became known as the Carnival Cruise Monster and the description sounded a lot like a long extinct apex predator the mosasaur but if the mosasaur had survived the extinction event which killed off three-quarters of the plant and animal species on earth and we definitely know about it it would have completely changed what our oceans look like and how we use them in fact if the mosasaur was still roaming our oceans the Megalodon might never have existed but how can one animal have such a huge impact these nightmarish marine animals were actually giant lizards kind of like the land-dwelling Komodo dragons but they evolved for life in the ocean their Anatomy made them dangerous predators imagine a lizard monster with the double hinged jaw of a snake massive teeth and a tail like a shark oh and they could be as large as 18 meters long that's four meters longer than your average yellow school bus they basically ate anything they wanted no fish dolphins sharks whales or even other mosasaurs were safe fossils from this species have been found on every continent including Antarctica evidence that these lizard Kings dominated the oceans in the Cretaceous period but they weren't all so ferocious with some species being as small as 1 meter long then how did they become so terrifying their ancestors were more like the marine iguanas living on the Galapagos Islands today around 90 million years ago these lizards would have ventured into the ocean for food at first they stayed close to the shoreline but as they evolved they started to make the open ocean their home the evolution of their powerful tail vertebrae made them skilled and speedy swimmers helping them move further away from the shore but they also remained close to the surface because like dolphins and whales they needed to come up for air it only took 27 million years for the mosasaur of Jurassic Park to evolve of course the mosasaur in this movie is not very accurate even though a real mosasaur was smaller than the one in Jurassic Park it was still a very dangerous creature if this species were alive today it would completely alter our oceans but why would it change them and how would it affect the way we use our oceans much of the marine life we know today probably wouldn't exist with the mosasaur inhabiting our seas they just wouldn't have stood a chance against this mighty foe instead the fish and mammals in our oceans would look and act much differently than they do today they would have adapted special traits and methods to avoid the Mosasaurus one ecological theory is that predators actually drive evolution because they force prey to adapt and quickly in fact a 2007 study found that the diversity of marine creatures over the past hundreds of millions of years is directly tied to interactions between predator and prey so our oceans might even more diverse if the Mosasaurus still existed but what about us well this giant lizard would make the oceans a much more dangerous place for humans we would need much larger boats small fishing boats and sailboats could be small at hold by this creature ocean hobbies like sailing and fishing wouldn't be as popular and swimming and surfing would certainly be life-threatening and maybe the story of moby dick would be about a menacing moses or instead of a whale thankfully mosasaurs do not exist today or our oceans would look completely different and that's a good thing if the Mosasaurus were able to survive extinction what's to say other species couldn't survive - just imagine pterodactyls flying overhead but that's a story for another what if [Music]

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Id: zxFHw0p50Xg

Length: 5min 31sec (331 seconds)

Published: Sat Apr 18 2020