In this video I explore the world of Mosasaurs - ancient marine relatives of modern monitor lizards, and the largest lizards that have ever existed, which I reconstructed for the traveling museum exhibit SAVAGE ANCIENT SEAS!
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The new traveling exhibit SAVAGE ANCIENT SEAS is currently between venues. If you are a museum interested in booking this exhibit you can email Mike@TrieboldPaleontology.com to inquire about bookings.
Stay tuned on social media for updates on where the exhibit will be traveling to next:
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To buy high quality casts of amazing fossil skeletons for your museum visit: www.TrieboldPaleontology.com
Follow paleontologist Anthony Maltese at / mosasaurologist
You can also check Anthony’s Blog for the Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Resource Center:
rmdrc.blogspot.com/
And check out Jacob Jett’s RMDRC youtube page:
Video on excavating Xiphactinus: • #15 Excavating Xiphact...
Video featuring the halved Xiphactinus: • #9 Xiphactinus- The Mo...
Music by historian himself:
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If you want to learn more about social behavior in modern squamates (lizards & snakes) check out these scientific publications:
Survey of squamate social behavior correlating it to live birth:
www.nature.com/articles/s4146...
Cryptic sociality in rattlesnakes:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
Night lizards study
www.nbcnews.com/id/39574731/ns...
Komodo Dragon evolution & biogeography:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
And since I know a few of the hard core paleo nerds out there are going to ask why i didn’t mention venom in monitor lizards/mosasaurs, here’s a scientific publication casting doubt on the idea that monitors are actually venomous at all:
www.researchgate.net/publicat...
20 июн 2018
