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Published: 2015-02-24 23:09:31 +0000 UTC; Views: 2710; Favourites: 77; Downloads: 0
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"Why you LITTLE!"Generic mosasaur, generic sea turtle. A digital painting I did in a canceled class today. Never really tried my hand at comics or cartoons but I wanted to ever since I saw this little caption game the Burpee Museum of Natural History had for a picture of a mounted display of a mosasaur chasing a sea turtle.
I heard Homer Simpson's voice going "Why you LITTLE!" when I saw that picture.
Completed on the 24th of February 2015.
Done using pencils, Photoshop CS6 and Corel Painter.
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HELLO YOUR MOSASAURUS IS AMAZING!!!
I WROTE MY FIRST BOOK AND IS ABOUT SCIENCE FICTION AND MOSASAURUS I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE YOUR PERMISSION TO USE YOUR GREAT IMAGE IN MY BOOK
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The Burpee Museum of Natural History I believe.
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Oh yeah that's right! It was a Platecarpus and Toxochelys!
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So the large marine squamatans held the Homer Simpson niche in the Mesozoic seas...interesting
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Homer the Mosasaur vs. Bart the Sea Turtle, nice XD
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I don't really get the forked tongue in mosasaurs. Paleo-enthusiasts are so adamant about equipping their mosasaurs with forked tongues to emphasize their relationship with monitor lizards, but smell doesn't work the same way underwater. In order to smell, your scent organs need access to air. Some mammals such as the star-nosed mole accomplish smelling underwater by blowing bubbles to trap scent particles, which they collect by inhaling the bubbles in order to smell, so even that still involves air. The idea of a mosasaur equipped with a tongue to smell is ludicrous, because you have to assume that it either simply can't smell or is blowing and inhaling bubbles all the time in order to actually make use of its tongue, which doesn't make any sense either because it would need all that air to stay submerged for long periods of time in order to hunt.
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Do not sharks hunt by smell?
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Sharks have a myriad of sensory organs, but they have always been aquatic and do not have any sensory organs that were modified from organs originally designed to function in a terrestrial environment.
It doesn't matter though, I went back and read about sea snakes and realized I had originally misinterpreted a paper discussing their forked tongues, so secondarily aquatic monitor lizards with forked tongues actually does make sense. I was mistaken.
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Who knows what sea snakes use their fork tongues for. Maybe it's not for smelling but it certainly can still sample its surroundings with a forked tongue.
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It looks more like its tasting the coral by physically touching it to me, which I can see working. I don't know how useful that'd be for an open ocean predator with no surfaces to lick though.
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Love it! 
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