Phosphorosaurus | Deep Sea Japanese Mosasaur

60 million years ago, something cute and tiny lurked off the coast of what would eventually become japan. Far from the 300 ft 90-meter Godzilla dimensions, this little sea serpent was equipped with giant forward-facing eyes and may have hunted prey in the dark of the sea bottom. Meet Phosphorosaurus, the deep-sea mosasaur.
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[@fireballninja01]

you're telling me that phosphorosaurus potentially being a hunter of bioluminescent organisms is just a coincidence? hell yeah happenstance

[@YukiTheOkami]

When i create a charackter for my storry a tiger demon who later becomes a kind of king I did not know that the kanji for king is based of the stripes of an tiger it was an coincedence that happens more friquently then you might think

[@laurachapple6795]

Destin's Nightmare: more of the Thanos dinosaur is found and it turns out to be unique enough that they name a family after it. Imagine the Thanosinae and Thanosidae. Thanosimorphs. Thanosiformes.

[@prexp9026]

So much thanoses.

[@holidaytheraptor6567]

@@prexp9026 But, they'd be perfectly balanced, as all things should be

[@retard_activated]

My head hurts 😂😂😂

[@twilightgardenspresentatio6384]

Dumb

[@twilightgardenspresentatio6384]

@@holidaytheraptor6567 what if you didn’t like or watch marvel franchise movies but love dinosaurs anyway I used to love finding how creature names originate…

[@evantiel727]

We need a Walking with Dinosaurs inspired Documentary with these two animators and voiced by you, Trey and Ben g Thomas !_! Uhh a good ost/sound person would be Soundsmith as well !

[@tyleraddison9062]

Oh god im not a good enough animator yet for a project like that lol

[@evantiel727]

@@tyleraddison9062 I belive it would look really good !

[@tyleraddison9062]

I would need to get alot better it's one thing to animate a swim anim it's another to animate a whole scene

[@evantiel727]

@@tyleraddison9062 It would be a team Project! And i belive you could do it 😳❤

[@retard_activated]

Gold!

[@alexanderkelly2517]

Phosphorosaurus: proof that mosasaurs were the first weebs. In all seriousness I would also love to see this little bugger alive, it’s just super adorable.

[@thewhovianhippo7103]

Well they are japanese so I don't get the joke

[@alexanderkelly2517]

@@thewhovianhippo7103 the big eyes is what I was getting at.

[@thewhovianhippo7103]

@@alexanderkelly2517 you mean anime

[@prexp9026]

Phosphorosaurus with those big eyes going OwO.

[@paleoph6168]

Aw yeah, mosasaur week, here we go!!

[@dreadpirateroberts1358]

The new shark week

[@prexp9026]

@@dreadpirateroberts1358 The better shark week.

[@mortified776]

08:01 It was at this point Destin realised hiring Jerry was a mistake.

[@absalomdraconis]

That's what happens when you don't check their references.

[@retard_activated]

🤣

[@alexwisz9527]

While Thanosaurus might be kind of arbitrary, pop culture references are fine when they're clearly relevant. Like the turtle Sinemys Gamera, which has hydrofoils on its shell.

[@knobjob2839]

You have a good sense of humor, and you make the subjects more interesting and engaging. Good job 👍

[@reubenc0039]

this is a fantastic video btw, tysm for making a mosasaur vid, they're my favourite!!

[@dynamosaurusimperious2718]

This was a great E.D.G.E with great commentary,art,and animation,that we can all thanks to Kuzim and Tyler for. ( Well for the animation at least ),so that's quite nice. Also HAPPY MOSASAURUS WEEK.

[@tyleraddison9062]

Thank you I'm very flattered

[@dynamosaurusimperious2718]

Your welcome

[@mattiavenator9931]

12:44 Ah yes, Aqua, is useful only for size comparison

[@1f5678]

At last, she isn't useless.

[@wycade1498]

She finally had a use

[@tenontot7522]

makes sense, due to a marine-creature...

[@jameskazd9951]

I'm glad i'm not the only one who instantly recognized who it was

[@noelhutchins7366]

That art style of animation was really rich, I liked it; it expresses what's known of the subject without implying any more detail than experts actually suspected it to have.

[@michaelyu2744]

Imagine if the Phosphorosaurus itself was bioilluminescent and could produce light itself as well.

[@GaasubaMeskhenet]

Always love seeing that low poly art

[@darrellwestrick2110]

No glowing mosasaurs? I came here for glowing mosasauridae.

[@daisyelizabeth5462]

i cant get over seeing my museum on a channel i love! it’s so cool to see b roll from our fossil hall!! ive been going to the houston museum of history and natural science since i was a baby, i love my museum and i love this channel :) it’s so cool to see two things i adore come together in this way

[@Scrinwaipwr]

Mosasaurs had a relatively short reign, they were the cancelled sequel to pliosaurs.

[@CthulhuianBunny]

So, a gator-length, deep-sea mosasaur with binocular vision? Cute!

[@malusignatius]

I could also see it as a shallow water nocturnal hunter, maybe prowling reefs or other inshore habitats.

[@joschuaknuppe5849]

Looking forward to the next themed week!

[@goatrex9195]

Mosasaurs are awesome, nice video.

[@pauls5745]

"the cutest Mosasaur ever" omg I want one haha! babies could even been cuter than Leopard Geckos!!

[@prismstudios001]

Nice Kaiju montage

[@thelittleal1212]

I like the animated 3D models your Animateurs made. In one of my videos, I got inspired from the behaviors of the animated Simosuchus of yours in my “Cretaceous Madagascar” video

[@dynamosaurusimperious6341]

Another then this being another great E.D.G.E,but with other cool peps like Kuzim & Tyler, and artwork,animation & commentary also was nice. Also I love this video,cause it give us a greater understanding when classifying certain animals into a taxon or it's own genus even if the animal it self my look like other similar animal that lived before or after it. ( also HAPPY MOSASAURUS MARCH. )

[@tyleraddison9062]

Glad you liked it

[@dynamosaurusimperious6341]

Your welcome

[@juanmiguelmenabeltran2140]

I love your videos,l love them they really fascinate me,you have to keep making these precious jewels.👏👏👍👍👌👌💎💎

[@Dylan-vd6rz]

RIP water type danger noodle.

[@crystalheart9]

Very interesting video. I've been watching some videos about Mosasaur and even bought some teeth as I like fossils. The teeth are small only about 1" in length. Thanks for the video it was quite informative and well done.

[@theconcernedtriceratops1140]

Fresh video. Neat!

[@jurassicmark9368]

I love your commentary so much 😂

[@katrinakollmann5265]

Love this.. mosasaur are my favorite species! 😍

[@katrinakollmann5265]

And you're welcome ;)

[@leoornstein3963]

Ah, tiny sea noodle, also happy #mossasaurweek! Everyone brace themself, the Kaiju has taken over E.D.G.E.

[@patrick_j_lee]

Would've been cool in Jurassic World if they'd know about it when making the movie.

[@southernsal3113]

👋 👋 Howzit. At around 7:27, I have a piece of rock like that. I'm so very interested in rocks, geology. It's an awesome topic. All all the other info it highlights, is incredibly cool 😎 also. Thanks 👍 👍

[@ShredGod7404]

Mosasaurs, Plesiosaurs, and other marine reptiles truly were sea dragons

[@brynadoodle]

Hey I saw the New Mexico natural history museum!!! Yoooo

[@arminreindl7742]

Knüppe sends his regards *stabs as the Rains of Castamere play in the distance*

[@onandonitgoes5957]

Many fish today have blacklight reactive coloration. Mososaurus may have had ultraviolet vision, like a bird or bee.

[@stevenandersen6989]

Nobody: E.D.G.E: *Kaiju Noises*

[@simong7202]

This is awesome

[@torbjornlekberg7756]

It hunted bioluminescent animals? Sounds like Phoshporosaurus was a pretty fitting name after all.

[@dragon091327]

This video is great, I learned a lot about the reason why we classify a dinosaurs genus the way we do vs modern organisms.

[@thewhovianhippo7103]

It is not a dinosaur you mean extinct organism

[@dragon091327]

@@thewhovianhippo7103 do you do float around KZbin waiting to nitpick random comments dude?

[@rexlupusetxe8367]

What a "#$&@" ( Godzilla roar) wonderful episode.

[@mr.maxilos4006]

I have a couple questions for you E.D.G.E. what would you give to see any prehistoric organism alive today? and what would that organism be? and why?

[@Stickminbasi90]

@ 14:05 Take it up with the Chixulub impactor :P

[@uncannyvalley2350]

There is some research that suggests many dinos could have actually been phosphorescent

[@pocketpicker6613]

8:06 *speaking of SUFFERING* 8:47 EDGE is a psychonaut confirmed?

[@fumomofumosarum5893]

random Aqua for size comparison because... why not?

[@BadAssXerx3]

Interesting as always

[@scumbaggaming9418]

This might be a typo, but your description says "60 million years ago", not sure if you meant that, like the fossils were 60 million years old and it survived the KT extinction but just barely, or if you just meant 65 or 66 mya.

[@generalkenobi7148]

Good Morning! Happy Saturday! 🌞

[@reubenc0039]

haha wow this taung child guy is so cool his music is amazing i bet he's really cute and strong haha

[@DavidGarcia-oi5nt]

Weird

[@thedoruk6324]

12 45 EDGE watches *anime* officially Confirmed!

[@thewhovianhippo7103]

Ok your *Sus*

[@thedoruk6324]

@@thewhovianhippo7103 *ı aM noT tHe ImpoSToR*

[@alexiaking7022]

is some of this in the houston natural history museum because i feel like i’ve seen these before !!

[@theleviathan7383]

I'm always happy to learn more about my favorite extinct reptiles

[@thebigchimpanski4783]

I wonder how long it could hold it's breath? How deep it could dive? I need to know moar!!!

[@generaldissatisfaction5397]

Considering its size I personally doubt it was a benthic feeder and couldn't dive very deeply, unless it had some unique physiology we don't know of. I wonder if it was more a nocturnal hunter.

[@HulklingsBoyfriend]

@@generaldissatisfaction5397 that's one of the arguments against it going very deep.

[@flioink]

Whoever is naming these ancient reptiles is clearly running out of ideas.

[@shanerooney7288]

Shark week; Late Cretaceous edition

[@matthewdavies2057]

Since it had lungs not gills it must have spent most of its time rising to breathe or falling to where it could use those big eyes. Yet it did well. Strange.

[@Ozraptor4]

That's how elephant seals hunt today. They can hold their breath for 100min and dive down to 2,388m (7,835 ft). They also hunt deep sea prey by vision (large eyes to detect bioluminescence).

[@dr.masiaka7048]

"Knüppe sends his regards"

[@thevenbede767]

Haven't done much cryptid or modern animal stuff. I like your content im just wondering why those are part of your channel if you do no vids on them.

[@EDGEscience]

I have and will be delving more into cryptids.

[@thevenbede767]

@@EDGEscience cool

[@Xbalanque84]

@@EDGEscience Sweet.

[@SuperKratosgamer]

5:54 most brazilian dinosaurs are named like that, sacisaurus has nothing to do with the Saci from the mythology, the same with oxalaia, it was named after a african deity.

[@josephgustafson1664]

Yeah! Love marine lizards!

[@jellysquiddles3194]

The real question is: Was that phosphorosaurus bioluminescent? Of course it had to be Japan that has the cute version of Mosasaurus. xD

[@canis2020]

I have to ask if you deepened your voice?

[@thekingofdinos8518]

I'd love a video on Xenodens.

[@Ledinosour673]

What you know about roling down in the deep... ...i feel like a lizard in the ocean

[@thomasmorgan9341]

I wonder if they tasted good

[@you2angel1]

Acid is definitely a tricky one but it's really good at getting at all those nooks and crannies when it comes to dissolving the minerals around your fossil but you have to remember your fossil is a mineral too. I live in Wyoming and the steaks are high if you make a mistake don't tell anyone because they'll just shake their heads and make it feel like a fool. And we're talking about people that are 10 years behind the fashion curb.

[@vickrykayser3129]

I want to pet one!!

[@Nvenom8.]

12:42 You think you're just going to put Aqua in there without someone saying something about it?

[@raymoonstar13]

That's one cultured size chart

[@chriskelvin248]

I'm curious to hear about that extra array of teeth on the palate.

[@stevenblankenheim4016]

www.fossilguy.com/gallery/vert/reptile/mosasaur/index.htm like snakes, seems a lot of mosasaurs had pterygoid teeth in rear and center of upper mouth.

[@Mate397]

14:05 I dunno those eyes looked pretty uncanny to me.

[@kerielwatson3197]

Great humour with the censoring! 🤣

[@Boom-hw8ku]

Knüppe sends his regards!

[@HalseyHFW]

Wouldn't they have experienced lots of eye injuries?

[@TheMadestLad]

Imagine if this was an octopus

[@carlpeters6675]

Not to take anything from your animators, I'm very glad that you have them, but can't we do better than origami mosasaurs?

[@paleomiguel]

Knüppe sends his regards

[@crazycatlady39]

So, Small swimming lizard relative that hunts glow in dark prey in the deep sea.

[@KimKhan]

I am just confused how there can be a deep-sea diving animal that needs to breathe air when it is so small. The amount of oxygen retention in the lungs/body would be much smaller, especially when the square/cube law is applied. Why can't it just be a nocturnal hunter?

[@EDGEscience]

There are small deep diving whales

[@KimKhan]

@@EDGEscience Looking into it, I didn't realize that the dwarf sperm whale and Cuvier's beaked whale could deep to the depths they could (300-1500 meters), being 2 meters and 7 meters long respectively.

[@uncannyvalley2350]

Wow, thanks for that follow up reply, who would ever think that was possible!

[@allthelittleworms]

Also wouldn't the pressure be too much to bear? Not super educated marine animals doe

[@Xbalanque84]

@@allthelittleworms Marine mammals retain a lot of oxygen in their muscles (hence why their meat is a deep red). There's a good chance certain marine reptile lineages had similar adaptations.

[@xavier84623]

I actually really like the name. It makes it sounds bioluminescent or something.

[@Mildewpants]

That was Aqua in the size comparison! lol

[@creakingskull7008]

Unrelated question, is it possible to follow someone on twitter without but just see what they post and not what they like/retweet? i used to follow those guys who make the models but i just want to see the models themselves, i don't care about what they like or retweet

[@EDGEscience]

click on the media header

[@creakingskull7008]

@@EDGEscience Thanks

[@RadioMartyT1B]

Based dinosaur bants.

[@AntoniusTyas]

. . . Why Aqua as comparison for the size of Phosphorosaurus...

[@miskatonic763]

I'm confused. A deep sea lizard? How did it breathe? Lizard skin isn't permeable. It didn't have gills. Yet it lived in the deep sea. Going up to the surface to breathe then back down to the depths would mean a lot of pressure changes too. I know that sperm whales can go down pretty deep, but they don't live there.

[@EDGEscience]

I didn’t say the mosasaur lived there.

[@tyleraddison9062]

I would think of it like a sperm whale just not as effective

[@miskatonic763]

@@tyleraddison9062 Thank you.

[@miskatonic763]

@@EDGEscience Are there any living reptiles that go underwater deeper than the iguanas on the Galapagos? I can also think of a temperature problem as well, although if it were large enough that might not be such A problem.

[@EDGEscience]

These guys are warm blooded

[@prehistoricfanboy101]

Deep Sea Japanese Mosasaur? I prefer the title: Prehistoric Yokai of the Sea

[@turkeyvulture2882]

Real life godzilla jr

[@morningstar8959]

That thing is a sea lion just much bigger

[@knightshade6232]

How does it breathe ... if its need to dive thousands of feet

[@EDGEscience]

ask whales

[@reeyees50]

8:00 for very deep scientific discussion

[@VolatileVolcarona]

Me seeing the human to Animal size comparison wait a minute that anime girl looks familiar but also somehow useless but also goddessy... is that Aqua from Konosuba

[@thedoruk6324]

Description *Something cute & tiny* We all know the upcoming jokes! especially when its about japan

[@Frogboyaidan]

Epic

[@yxngthugger1561]

Aqua?

[@urrywest]

You don't need to prejudice your scientists...

[@petrfedor1851]

Knüppe sends his regards! Yeah, I know pic in question is shown when is talked about mosasaurs in general but don´t ruin the meme!

[@johnmanno2052]

You are a very intelligent, but exceedingly goofy, guy