Mosasaurs is an English word. Below you'll find 6 example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Mosasaurs meaning
plural of mosasaur
Using Mosasaurs
- The main meaning on this page is: plural of mosasaur
Context around Mosasaurs
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.5 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 2 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 6 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Mosasaurs
- In this selection, "mosasaurs" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 26.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, giant, aquatic, evolved and reached stand out and add context to how "mosasaurs" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include carnivorous giant mosasaurs were swimming and extinct aquatic mosasaurs reached convert. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "mosasaurs" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with mosasaurs
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Mosasaurs evolved to replace them as head of the seas. (10 words)
Now, new research suggests that mosasaurs had yet another potent advantage: a muscular breast stroke that may have added ambush-worthy bursts of speed. (24 words)
Some extinct varanids reached great size: The giant monitor Megalania is estimated to have reached up to convert long; while the extinct aquatic mosasaurs reached convert. (26 words)
Genetic studies in recent years have indicated snakes are not as closely related to monitor lizards as was once believed—and therefore not to mosasaurs, the proposed ancestor in the aquatic scenario of their evolution. (35 words)
About 67 million years ago, when T. rex was stomping around in what is now the western United States, the largest lizards, the carnivorous giant mosasaurs, were swimming around in the ocean. (32 words)
Similar skull structure, reduced or absent limbs, and other anatomical features found in both mosasaurs and snakes lead to a positive cladistical correlation, although some of these features are shared with varanids. (32 words)
Example sentences (6)
About 67 million years ago, when T. rex was stomping around in what is now the western United States, the largest lizards, the carnivorous giant mosasaurs, were swimming around in the ocean.
Now, new research suggests that mosasaurs had yet another potent advantage: a muscular breast stroke that may have added ambush-worthy bursts of speed.
Genetic studies in recent years have indicated snakes are not as closely related to monitor lizards as was once believed—and therefore not to mosasaurs, the proposed ancestor in the aquatic scenario of their evolution.
Mosasaurs evolved to replace them as head of the seas.
Similar skull structure, reduced or absent limbs, and other anatomical features found in both mosasaurs and snakes lead to a positive cladistical correlation, although some of these features are shared with varanids.
Some extinct varanids reached great size: The giant monitor Megalania is estimated to have reached up to convert long; while the extinct aquatic mosasaurs reached convert.