Mosasaurus (SciiFii)

Mosasaurus hawaiiensis (name meaning "Hawaiian lizard of the Meuse River") Also known as the Giant Umibôzu is a species of aquatic lizard belonging to the mosasaur family of the Mosasaurini tribe that originally lived in the United States, South America, Europe, Africa, Western Asia, and Antarctica around 82-66  million years ago during the Campanian and Maastrichtian stages of the Late Cretaceous period as an extinct species of Mosasaurus and was once extinct, but has since been brought back from extinction by SciiFii. It was originally going to be showcased at Cretaceous Park, unfortunately, ships that contained tanks which had 23 Mosasaurus hawaiiensis had crashed into rocky seafloors near the coast of Oregon and sank, letting the 19 surviving Mosasaurus hawaiiensis loose into the modern tropical, subtropical, temperate, and subpolar climates across the Pacific Ocean. Mosasaurus hawaiiensis is a carnivore, possessing excellent vision to compensate for its poor sense of smell, that primarily feeds on moderate-sized fish, squid, ammonites, and small-to-medium-sized marine reptiles. Mosasaurus hawaiiensis is one of the largest species of mosasaurs on Earth, growing to between 6.5-18 meters (21-59 feet) in length. It has a high-profile tail fluke like other mosasaurs, showing that it and other mosasaurs do not have an eel-like swimming method, but are more powerful, fast swimmers similar to sharks. Like all mosasaurs, Mosasaurus hawaiiensis is endothermic ("warm-blooded"), allowing it to have a high metabolism rate and, thanks to having blubber, tolerate cooler waters in which it inhabits. Like other mosasaurs, Mosasaurus hawaiiensis has a forked tongue similar to monitor lizards and has a same function, smelling for its food sources, despite its sense of smell being poor. Infighting takes place in the form of snout grappling, similarly seen in crocodiles. The conservation status of Mosasaurus hawaiiensis is Least Concern due to the species' wide range and abundant source of food, as well as the species' tolerance to many of the human activities.
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