Thunder lizard

While the Venture crew pursued King Kong across Skull Island to rescue Ann Darrow, they came upon a large swamp. The men created a raft and attempted to cross the swamp, but the head of a thunder lizard suddenly emerged from the water and destroyed the raft, grabbing several of the men in its mouth and tossing them away like ragdolls. Those who escaped swam to the shore and proceeded to run away into the woods, but the thunder lizard climbed out of the water and followed them, charging through the forest and mounting a second attack. Jack Driscoll, Carl Denham and several other members of the crew scaled trees to escape, but those who were unable to follow them were quickly killed by the dinosaur. After roaring at the survivors, the thunder lizard returned to the water and disappeared.

* **Loch-Ness Mess:** While resting in a Skull Mountain lagoon, an aquatic dinosaur was disturbed by the crew of the *Wanderer* floating over the top of its submerged body in a makeshift raft. The thunder lizard then lifted its head out of the water directly under the craft, breaking it to pieces in the process. The raging dinosaur chased after the fleeing sailors onto land, and ate a sailor who had climbed a tree in an attempt to escape it.
* **Water Dinosaur:** While resting in a lagoon of Skull Island, an aquatic thunder lizard was disturbed by the crew of the *Wanderer* floating over the top of its submerged body in a makeshift raft. The thunder lizard then lifted its head out of the water directly under the craft, breaking it to pieces in the process. The raging dinosaur chased after the fleeing sailors onto land, and ate a sailor who had climbed a tree in an attempt to escape it.'
	+ **Creature Features**
		- **Name:** It begins with thunder and ends with a lizard
		- **Body parts:** Gigantic body, long-neck and a head of dinosaur
		- **Legendary origin:** Thunder lizard was replaced by Mokele-mbembe
		- **Where?** The lagoon of Skull Mountain where the living dinosaur lives.

## Swamp Monster!

At the time the original King Kong was made, it was believed that sauropods like Brachiosaur were too large to be able to live on land and support their own body weight. For this reason, the thunder lizard in the film is portrayed as an aquatic dinosaur, and is also portrayed as being violent and carnivorous. Scientists now know that long-necked dinosaurs were fully terrestrial herbivorous dinosaurs.

* **Nessie:** The depiction of thunder lizard in the original King Kong represent the animal at a time when it was sometimes considered to be in a distinct genus from the Diplodocus, a related sauropod dinosaur. It was later decided that as a whole, swamp dinosaur was just another species of Ankylodocus, and thus the genus fell out of usage in the first half of the 20th century. However, in the early 21st century, the genus was revived again and determined by another team of paleontologists to be separate from various dinosaurs from 65 million B.C.
* **Extinct in the Future:** A aquatic dinosaur briefly appeared as Skull Island sank into the Indian Ocean.
	+ **Did You Know?** Thunder lizard is generally based on the living dinosaur of African country, Congo. It is called "Mokele mbembe" who lived in Congolese swamp.