Mosasaurus VS Megalodon

Mosasaurus

The Mosasaurus has a long and tapered jaw, holding about 40-50 huge, conical and sharp teeth. They have a double-hinge jaw which allows them to eat their prey whole, similar to modern snakes. Mosasaurs likely preyed on fish, turtles, ammonites, and smaller mosasaurs and plesiosaurs. Mosasaurus was a reptile, and had to breathe air, so it would need to come to the surface every so often to fill its lungs with oxygen. It had evolved paddle-like limbs with skin fusing the finger and toe bones together. They had a slim body plan with a long strong tail and  used its limbs for maneuvering more than locomotion.

 

 

Megalodon

Megalodon has a 7 foot jaw which held 276 blade-like teeth; handy for cutting and grasping their prey. The body shape resembled a great white shark. This means it would have taken prey by surprise from below and made precision strikes to immobilize its prey with strong bite. Also, sharks like to shake their prey side to side in order to increase bite forces. I would not want to be around this creature! Fossil evidence suggests that an active predator are large whales of megalodon, where teeth marks were found on whale vertebrae. Megalodon’s teeth were built in a way that they would rarely crack even if they hit bone.

 

 

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WINNER

THE MEGALODON WINS! The Mosasaurus had a long, thin body with jaws designed more for feeding on smaller prey such as ammonites and fish. Although the Megalodon is similar in length, it had a much more robust body and huge jaws built for devouring whales and other large marine mammals.  A Mosasaurus would not have been able to get its jaws around the much thicker body of the Megalodon. However, the Megalodon can end the battle with just one catastrophic bite. Another difference is the speed, the Mosasaurus is not a high-speed swimmer, due to its body type; on the other hand the Megalodon has a huge advantage because of its maneuverability.