What is a cretoxyrhina?

1. What is a Cretoxyrhina animal?
2. What dinosaur ate sharks?
3. Who would win a megalodon or a Mosasaurus?
4. What is the biggest shark in history?
5. How big is a Helicoprion?
6. How strong is a Megalodons bite?
7. Is the Megalodon still alive?
8. Is the Megalodon a dinosaur?
9. Is crocodile a dinosaur?
10. Did Mosasaurus eat Indominus Rex?
11. What killed the Mosasaurus?
12. Is Mosasaurus bigger than T-Rex?
13. What killed off the Megalodon?
14. Is the Megalodon bigger than the blue whale?
15. What is the most aggressive shark?

What is a Cretoxyrhina animal?

Cretoxyrhina was one of the largest sharks and a formidable predator in the Late Cretaceous seas. Nicknamed the Ginsu shark after the kitchen knife that slices and dices, Cretoxyrhina ripped apart prey with a mouth full of razor-sharp, bone-shearing teeth. ... Sharks are made of cartilage, which does not fossilize well.

What dinosaur ate sharks?

Spinosaurus, the Biggest Meat-Eating Dino Ever Discovered, Ate Entire Sharks. In the desert sands of Morocco, scientists found fossils of a colossal Mesozoic killing machine that patrolled ancient river systems and devoured huge prey.

Who would win a megalodon or a Mosasaurus?

While a similar length, the Megalodon had a much more robust body and huge jaws built for devouring whales and other large marine mammals. A Mosasaurus would not have been able to get its jaws around the much thicker body of the Megalodon. It would just take one catastrophic bite for the Megalodon to end the battle.

What is the biggest shark in history?

The biggest shark in the world

O. megalodon was not only the biggest shark in the world, but one of the largest fish ever to exist. Estimates suggest it grew to between 15 and 18 metres in length, three times longer than the largest recorded great white shark.

How big is a Helicoprion?

Based on the proportional size of caseodontoid tooth whorls, this may indicate that Helicoprion individuals could reach 5 to 8 meters (16.4 to 26.2 feet) in length, rivaling the size of modern basking sharks.

How strong is a Megalodons bite?

With a jaw estimated to measure about 9 x 11 feet, scientists have calculated that megalodon's bite force would be about 40,000 pounds per square inch.

Is the Megalodon still alive?

Megalodon is NOT alive today, it went extinct around 3.5 million years ago. Go to the Megalodon Shark Page to learn the real facts about the largest shark to ever live, including the actual research about it's extinction.

Is the Megalodon a dinosaur?

Even though megalodons and dinosaurs are both extinct, they never coexisted. The dinosaurs died out about 66 million years ago. Megalodons came later. ... Since sharks don't have bones, most of what we know about megalodon comes from its large fossil teeth.

Is crocodile a dinosaur?

As far as reptiles go, crocodiles are closely related to dinosaurs. But they're incredibly complex biological organisms that survived the meteor impact that ended the Cretaceous period roughly 66 million years ago — and did in their dinosaur relatives.

Did Mosasaurus eat Indominus Rex?

Jurassic World

The Mosasaur dragged the Indominus Rex to the bottom of the lagoon, killing the hybrid. ... rex, and Blue the Velociraptor, the Mosasaurus beached itself to catch the hybrid in its jaws and dragged it to the bottom of the lagoon, thus killing it.

What killed the Mosasaurus?

During the last 20 million years of the Cretaceous period (Turonian–Maastrichtian ages), with the extinction of the ichthyosaurs and pliosaurs, mosasaurs became the dominant marine predators. They became extinct as a result of the K-Pg event at the end of the Cretaceous period, about 66 million years ago.

Is Mosasaurus bigger than T-Rex?

The Mosasaur Size Chart says that Mosasaurus is the largest mosasaur (like how I think), and compared to the T-Rex size, Mosasaurus is definitely bigger than both I-Rex and T-Rex.

What killed off the Megalodon?

The great white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) may have wiped out the giant megalodon (Otodus megalodon). But scientists may have miscalculated megalodon's time of death by about 1 million years. ... There's clear evidence that up until about 3.6 million years ago, megalodons were alive in the ocean.

Is the Megalodon bigger than the blue whale?

When it comes to size, the blue whale dwarfs even the largest megalodon estimates. ... That's more than twice the size of even the largest megalodon size estimates. Blue whales and other gigantic whale species have evolved to be so largely because there's no apex predator the size of megalodon in today's ocean.

What is the most aggressive shark?

Wikipedia Great Whites get most of the headlines but Bull Sharks may be the most dangerous shark of them all. It has been recorded in 69 unprovoked attacks on humans but researchers believe the numbers may be higher because of the lack of easily identifiable markings.