Rankings / Prehistoric / Water / Super heavyweight / Mosasaurus
Prehistoric · Late CretaceousWaterSuper heavyweight
Mosasaurus
Mosasaurus hoffmannii · Atlantic coasts of Europe and North America
Record
0–0
Win rate
–
Fight rating
1,500
Fighter stats
Estimates from fossils, for adults- Lived
- About 70–66 million years ago
- Weight
- Possibly ~10 tons (very uncertain)
- Size
- ~36–56 ft long (estimates vary)
- Top speed
- Unknown
- Weapons
- Skull up to ~6.5 ft, curved teeth, extra teeth on the roof of the mouth
- Diet
- Carnivore: fish, sharks, turtles, other marine reptiles
- Lifespan
- Unknown
Power-ups
- Top predator of Late Cretaceous seas
- Huge jaws with extra grabbing teeth
- Ate other big marine reptiles
Weak spots
- Breathed air, had to surface
- Better at bursts than long chases
Fight record
Bars show the share of votes for the mosasaurus. A fight counts toward the record once it has 10+ votes.
In the wild
The first Mosasaurus fossils came from a quarry near Maastricht, Netherlands, in the 1760s. A later skull was seized by the French army in 1795 and taken to Paris.
Source: nhm.ac.ukMosasaur stomach contents include plesiosaurs and even other mosasaurs. Fossils of pregnant mosasaurs show they gave live birth at sea.
Source: nhm.ac.uk