How Scientifically Accurate is the Jurassic World MOSASAURUS?

In this video we will compare the real Mosasaurus to the larger than life Jurassic World rendition of the animal! The Mosasaurus was the mightiest ocean predator of it’s time, but how different is the real animal from Hollywood's take? Watch this animation to find out!

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SOURCES
Jurassic World Mosasaurus Size Reference (Test footage from Fallen Kingdom):
►https://www.instagram.com/p/BxiPZf-F8...
Mosasaurus Hoffmanni:
Anatomy (Note this paper was written in 1995 and does not account for the larger Ichthyosaurs)
►https://royalsocietypublishing.org/do...
Size
►https://www.zin.ru/journals/trudyzin/...
Additional Sources on M. hoffmanni:
►https://geology.rutgers.edu/images/st...
►https://www.geology.lu.se/sites/geolo...
►https://www.cambridge.org/core/servic...
►https://www.cambridge.org/core/servic...

Coloration based on related species
►https://bigbendpaleogeojournal.homest...
Tail fluke based on related species
►https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomm...

Mosasaurus Lemonnieri
►https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...

Paleobiota of the Maastricht Formation:
►https://www.deviantart.com/paleosir/a...

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