Monday, July 27, 2015
How to Be a Computer Generated Mosasaur
In January 2014, I wrote about How To Be A Megalodon Shark which was about a character in a very popular smartphone game Hungry Shark Evolution. In that posting, I was hoping they would create an arthrodire or mosasaur creature for the game. It was great when they created a Dunkleosteus in late 2014. Now they have created a Mosasaurus creature for the game. It takes quite a bit of virtual gold coins to get this animal and I still have some playing to do in order to get it. Here are some screen shots of the creature preview in the game. I look forward to playing it as it is smaller than the other two characters thus can navigate the underwater caverns better in the game.
This game is mixing modern fish and sharks with fossil sharks and marine reptiles: mosaurus (Mesozoic Era - Cretaceous Period) Megalodon (Cenozoic Era - Neogene Period) and the Dunkleosteus (Paleozoic Era - Devonian Period).
Possible future additions to the creature library for this game could be the Mesozoic ichthyosaur. Since this is a game developed in England the Temnodontosaurus found by Joseph and Mary Anning in 1811-12 in Lyme Regis could be a good choice. Below image of fossil skull of Temnodontosaurus (originally Ichthyosaurus) drawing from wikipedia.org.
Learn more at this wiki:
http://hungry-shark.wikia.com/wiki/Mr._Snappy_(Mosasaurus)
http://hungry-shark.wikia.com/wiki/Big_Daddy_%28Dunkleosteus%29
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosasaurus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunkleosteus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalodon
Labels:
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hungry shark evolution,
mosasaur,
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Sunday, July 26, 2015
Unidentified Mississippian Period Shark Tooth Fossil
This picture shows an unidentified fossil shark tooth. It was found in the Somerset Shale of the Salem Limestone of Hardin County Kentucky, USA. The fossil dates back to the Mississippian Period.
Thanks to Kenny for the pictures.
Saturday, July 25, 2015
Skin Cast of Triceratops Dinosaur
This picture shows a cast of the skin texture of a Triceratops horridus dinosaur. The fossil was found in the Hell Creek Formation of Harding County, South Dakota USA. This animal existed in the late Cretaceous Period.
Fossil cast was on display at Children's Museum of Indianapolis Dinosphere exhibit as of July 2015. The museum was founded in 1925 and consists of an approximate 44,000 square meter facility on a 29 acre area site. Their natural science collection contains more than 10,000 items. Some of the items in the collection are the dinosaur Dracorex hogwartsia, fossil of teenage T.rex, Christensen Mastodon, 3.5-4 billion year old Acasta Gneiss, and the Geisler geological collection. Learn more at this link.
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