Chapter 67: The Carp Leaps Over the Dragon Gate! Hoffman's Mosasaur! (Seeking follow-up recommendation votes)
Western Interior Seaway.

The afterglow of sunset covering the sea surface gradually faded away as the sun set, and a touch of cold moonlight fell again, giving the shallow blue sea a layer of broken silver color.

Suddenly, the beautiful atmosphere was broken. Huge waves of shock came from the bottom of the sea. The mud and sand kept rolling with the sea water, mixed with a large amount of minced meat and blood. The scene was shocking and the momentum was amazing.

Only upon closer inspection could one see that they were several huge black shadows fighting frantically.

If Chu Xu were here, he would definitely be able to recognize them. One of them was the Cretaceous shark that he had once met.

Ever since Chu Xu's small explosion caused its jaw to be broken and its esophagus to be burned more than three months ago, the Cretaceous spine shark has found it difficult to hunt normally and can only eat small fish and shrimps. It is unable to fill its stomach and its life is coming to an end.

So the two lamellar dragons targeted the Cretaceous spine shark, which was at the end of its strength, and launched a sneak attack when it was unprepared, in order to eliminate this powerful competitor!
Elasmosaurus is a large predatory marine reptile of the family Plesiosauridae.

The plesiosaur family is named after their slender and flexible snake-like necks. They look like a snake passing through a turtle shell, and their limbs are specialized into fleshy flippers suitable for paddling, allowing them to move freely in the water and climb ashore to rest or lay eggs to reproduce.

They began to rise in the late Triassic period and spread all over the world by the Jurassic period. Plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs became the overlords of the oceans in the Jurassic period.

However, things change. By the Late Cretaceous, the sea level continued to rise, reaching its highest point in the Phanerozoic Eon, at 150 meters high.

Excessively high sea levels allowed ocean circulation to flow freely, and the tropics transported heat to the poles uncontrollably, but their own temperatures dropped to levels that were unbearable for tropical organisms, triggering a small-scale biological extinction event during the Cenomanian-Turonian period.

The once prosperous ichthyosaurs and pliosaurs gradually declined and eventually disappeared.

The remaining plesiosaurs also suffered fatal damage. From then on, the Late Cretaceous oceans were dominated by the rising Mosasaurs, which shone brightly in the last tens of millions of years of the Mesozoic Era.

Even so, the plesiosaurs, as the former overlords of the ocean, should not be underestimated. The Elasmosaurus is a representative of the plesiosaurs of the Late Cretaceous. It can reach a body length of 13 meters, with its neck alone accounting for more than half of its length, and weighs about 2 tons.

A single lamellar dragon might not be a match for the Cretaceous Thorn Shark, but when two lamellar dragons attacked it together, the latter was seriously injured, and the outcome of the battle was already doomed.

However, the mantis stalks the cicada while the oriole follows behind.

The Cretaceous spine-armored sharks and lamelliosaurs who were fighting for their lives did not notice that a huge black shadow, the true overlord of the ocean in the Late Cretaceous period, quietly appeared not far away!
Finally, this life-and-death struggle came to an end.

Under the attack of the two laminosaurs, the Cretaceous shark, which had already suffered severe damage, had no choice but to swallow its anger and its body was divided and eaten by them.

However, the Cretaceous spine shark's dying counterattack also caused serious injuries to the two lamellar dragons, and their physical strength was almost exhausted.

Just as the two laminaria were preparing to enjoy their hard-earned spoils, the huge black shadow that had been lurking for a long time slowly appeared behind them.

When the two laminaria dragons noticed it and turned their heads, they were shocked to find its existence.

It was a Hoffmann's Mosasaur, the latest and largest Mosasaur species to survive.
It was about 13 meters long and weighed 10 to 12 tons. It was a super-sized T0-class overlord in the oceans of the Late Cretaceous, just like the Tyrannosaurus Rex.

The next second, the Hoffman Mosasaur moved suddenly, and its broad, flat, vertical paddle-shaped tail swung. Its long, barrel-shaped body rushed towards the two frightened thin dragons with powerful kinetic energy like a fish out of a shell.

The sea water was shaken and stirred wherever it passed, creating deadly whirlpools.

The two lamellaeosauruses, facing disaster, immediately fled in separate directions, desperately waving their limbs and flippers, pushing their bodies forward like oars.

The Hofmann's Mosasaur also swung its flipper-like limbs, turned around, and approached one of the Lamellarosaurs at a rapid speed.

"boom!!"

The sea water surged, and the bloody mouth of Hoffman's Mosasaur suddenly opened, revealing nearly a hundred sharp conical teeth of various sizes.

"Tear!"

With its big mouth suddenly closed, the Hoffman's Mosasaur tore off one of the fins of the lamellar dragon and swallowed it into its mouth. A large amount of blood sprayed out, dyeing the surrounding sea water red. The blood-red waves that followed rolled and surged like blooming blood flowers, which was shocking.

Next, bite by bite, the Hofmann's Mosasaur tore off pieces of flesh from the body of the Lacerosaurus, and finally bit off its slender neck completely, ending its pitiful life.

After eating almost the most delicious meat from the Sphenodon, the Hoffmann's Mosasaur threw it away casually, turned around and came to the Cretaceous Spiny Shark, leisurely and leisurely savoring its taste like a gourmet.

In the vast Western Interior Seaway and even in the wider ocean, an adult Hoffmann's Mosasaur has no natural enemies other than its own kind, so it has the capital to live a leisurely and comfortable life.

However, sometimes after eating too much marine animals and getting tired of them, Hoffmann's Mosasaur couldn't help but miss the taste of those land dinosaurs.

Millions of years ago, the Mosasaur was just an insignificant small land lizard - the cliff lizard, less than 1 meter long, which could only feed on insects. It lived on land in fear of being dominated by dinosaurs, so it took a gamble and plunged into the sea.

Compared with the fiercely competitive land, the ocean is also surrounded by powerful enemies.

Long before the cliff lizards went into the sea, ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs had ruled this blue water for tens of millions of years in the Triassic period.

But by God's mercy, the cliff lizard happened to catch the small-scale biological extinction event during the Cenomanian-Turonian period.

Then, in the next short period of less than 10 million years, the cliff lizard experienced a revolutionary counterattack and evolved into a giant Mosasaur, becoming the unshakable sea king of the Late Cretaceous. It was a legendary achievement.

The hatred genes from their ancestors towards land dinosaurs have been deeply engraved in the brains of the Mosasaurs. If they have the chance to encounter those land dinosaurs again, they will definitely treat them well!
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(End of this chapter)