Gavialimimus a New Fish-Eating Mosasaur coloring page

Today's new coloring page is of Gavialimimus.

Gavialimimus was a fish-eating Mosasar.

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Gavialimimus the New Fish Eating Mosasar

Gavialimimus was a fairly large Mosasaur.  Its fossilized skull has been found and it was 3 feet long or just under a meter long.  It was probably around 20-30 feet long.  It had a long narrow snout.  It lived in the late Cretaceous Period and there were many other types of Mosasaurs in the same waters.  These different types of Mosasaurs could live together at the same time because they fed on different prey species.  They were each specialized for their own type of prey.  This is also called a niche that each species filled.  

You can kind of think of a niche as what the species job is.  Gavialimimus fed on fish.  That was its niche or job. Its narrow snout allowed it to move fast side to side to catch fast-moving fish.  All the fish in this drawing, as well as the crab, are from the Cretaceous Period.  These fish with thin tails were fast-swimming fish like modern-day tuna.  

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