{"id":18167,"date":"2023-12-15T03:06:37","date_gmt":"2023-12-14T21:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=18167"},"modified":"2025-04-05T09:06:59","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T03:36:59","slug":"mosasaur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/mosasaur\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Mosasaur?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Mosasaur<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Mosasaurs (family Mosasauridae) were a group of\u00a0large predatory marine reptiles that\u00a0inhabited all of the world\u2019s oceans\u00a0during the\u00a0Late Cretaceous epoch, between\u00a090 and 66 million years ago.<\/li>\n<li>They are\u00a0related to snakes and monitor lizards and were some of the largest marine organisms of the time and\u00a0some of the largest predatory reptiles, period.<\/li>\n<li>These creatures were\u00a0contemporaries of\u00a0Tyrannosaurus rex and\u00a0other\u00a0Cretaceous dinosaurs\u00a0that ruled the Earth.<\/li>\n<li>They\u00a0lived near the surface of the water since it\u00a0breathed air, much as whales do.<\/li>\n<li>They\u00a0died out, along with dinosaurs and many other animals,\u00a0during the mass extinction\u00a0at the\u00a0end of the Cretaceous Period, 66 million years ago.<\/li>\n<li>Features:\n<ul>\n<li>Although Mosasaur species\u00a0varied in length,\u00a0some grew to be\u00a0more than 50 feet long.<\/li>\n<li>They had a\u00a0snakelike body with a\u00a0large skull, a\u00a0long snout, and\u00a0sharp teeth.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0structure of the skull was very\u00a0similar to that of the\u00a0modern monitor lizards, to which mosasaurs are related.<\/li>\n<li>They had\u00a0flipper-like paddles for arms and legs and a\u00a0tail fin.<\/li>\n<li>They\u00a0propelled themselves\u00a0by mainly\u00a0moving the large\u00a0fin on their tail in a side-to-side motion.<\/li>\n<li>They were also\u00a0covered in smooth scales, which were very dark in color.<\/li>\n<li>They were\u00a0carnivores.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Tyrannosaurus rex?<\/h3>\n<p>Tyrannosaurus rex, commonly known as T. rex, was a large carnivorous dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous period, approximately 68 to 66 million years ago.T. rex was one of the largest carnivorous dinosaurs, with estimates suggesting it could reach lengths of up to 40 feet (12 meters) and stand about 15 feet (4.6 meters) tall at the hips.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freepressjournal.in\/science\/japan-unearths-72-million-years-old-blue-dragon-that-terrorized-ancient-seas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Japan Unearths 72-Million-Years-Old Blue &#8216;Dragon&#8217; That Terrorized Ancient Seas<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mosasaurs (family Mosasauridae) were a group of large predatory marine reptiles that inhabited all of the world\u2019s oceans during the Late Cretaceous epoch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":18168,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18167","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}