I used to struggle immensely with public speaking, you gotta find your own rhythm. Definitely get better as the presentation continues.

That's generally what happens when people aren't exactly comfortable with public speaking, but then have a chance to get nerdy about something they love

Idk, have you seen a Mississippi Mosquito?

That's just how you feel about the word it has more than the negative connotation you've assigned it

They kinda do though.

It’s all because of maaagical liopleurodooon ❤️

@@mjm3091 only mosasaurus does not pliosaurus

Mosa? They gave him some scenes in the Jurassic world movies he’s a movie star!

To be fair sharks have always been able to coexist with preda bigger than them

@Jurassic Ark: Jordanisgreat Yeah probably true (*see below). Amazing nature knows there's always a potential open niche at the top and usually something evolves to claim it (i.e. dunkleosteus, megalodon, largest huge pliosaurs, orcas, etc) we take them for granted but takes huge energy costs to evolve mega predators. But where there's a way, there's a will, I suppose, nature will figure it out. *Sharks have been always there pretty much yes (tho the first modern highly predatory lamniform sharks didn't evolve until around 100 million years ago, well after the golden age of top reptile marine predators. There were still large marine reptile predators in the cretaceous, but doesn't seem anywhere near the dominance (size, species abunance/ firm hold on the top predatory niches) they had during the Jurassic. New species can/do evolve during times of stasis, but seems more likely most major change/evolution occurs after extinction events or in response to changing environments. With the extinction of many marine Reptiles sometime during or after the Jurassic, a meso-predator release happened where modern sharks evolved and thrived much more than they did during the Jurassic. Sharks were still hit hard (or at least many of them) by the end cretaceous extinctions (the topic of my first elasmobranch evolution podcast, for those curious about it and don't want to read lots of scientific literature or if there's no documentaries about it yet) and haven't always been at the top of the global marine food chain , but yep their consistency and diversity among predatory fish or any marine predators over time is basically unmatched Edit: and it's a myth/ romanticizing the mosasaurs that they were alone at the top/ the only big bad marine predators in the cretaceous. Shark diversity was pretty solid all the way until the K-T extinctions, had sharks of lots of forms including ginsu shark (Cretoxyrhina), squalicorax aka crow shark, goblin sharks (in shallow seas not just in deep ocean like nowadays), cretalamna, etc. mostly those ancient mackerel sharks. I'm no absolute cretaceous expert, but I do know it was a mix of mosasaurs and sharks dominating in at least much of the cretaceous, and some bony fish like Xiphactinus to some degree

Sharks and crocodiles are great survivors 🦈🐊.

Sounds like a gharial, from India.

@@patreekotime4578 It certainly gave me that impression, but why was it not introduced as such? What was it doing in Africa? Apart from growing to a suitable size. That's another thing. Are there any Gharials left in India.

We have that same problem in Louisiana. We were part of the Western Interior Seaway for most of the Mesozoic. We've had an Icthyosaur or two found here.

Similar traits shared between distantly related or unrelated animals is due to what is known as "convergent evolution."

Beware of a commenter called Indy Reno posting nonsense taxonomy and other flawed info. He does this all the time and stubbornly ignores criticism.

Teeth also.