For thousands of years, the sea and the land had them as some of the most dominant animals, until their extinction came. the mosasaur, the woolly mammoth and the thalassomedon were three of the most powerful species on our planet. Although today we can see his remains, what did they sound like?
This is a doubt that scientists have constantly had. We recently wrote about what the noise emitted by dinosaurs was like, very different from the roars of movies like Jurassic Park. Hollywood depicted them with fearsome fury, and though they had the size, perhaps the sound was less terrifying.
Now we focus on other extinct species, such as the mosasaur, the woolly mammoth and the thalassomedon. First let’s know what they were and then we will approach what their sounds could have been.
This was the mosasaur, the woolly mammoth and the thalassomedon
The mosasaur (mosasaurus, or “Meuse river lizard”) it was a sauropsid that lived 70-66 million years ago. This reptile-like marine animal could reach 18 meters in length.
At first glance, you might think of a crocodile with fins. The first remains were found near the Meuse River in Europe, but it could have inhabited the seas in what is now North America, South America and Antarctica.
While, the woolly mammoth, distant relative of the elephants, belonged to the family of the elephantidae. The oldest remains date from 150 thousand years ago, being found in the area between Europe and Asia.
Its molars were huge, similar to those of elephants, and the species could reach 2.80 to 3.40 meters, weighing 6 tons. The tusks, on average, measured up to 4.2 meters in length, weighing 84 kilograms.
In the case of the Thalassomedon, It was a plesiosauroid that lived 95 million years ago in present-day North America. His name comes from the Greek, which can be translated as “lord of the seas”.
Its body length was 12 meters, with a neck that had 62 vertebrae.
What did these animals that suffered extinction sound like?
the content creator rubenete, With 4.2 million followers on YouTube and an expert in spreading curiosities, he released a video with the possible sounds of the mosasaur, the woolly mammoth and the thalassomedon. In this link you can find it.
Let us remember that today it is impossible to verify 100% that it was so, and that all this is speculation. It’s time to wait and see if technology, in the future, can achieve it. But let’s hear the approach.