Name: AHB Ancient Creatures – Mosasaurus – Mosasaurus hoffmannii | Figure
Brand: Animal Heavenly Body
SKU: AHB-ANC-05
Price: 40.00 USD
Availability: InStock

AHB Ancient Creatures – Mosasaurus – Mosasaurus hoffmannii | Figure

$40.00

Mosasaurus — the giant sea lizard of the Late Cretaceous — rearing up jaws-first with a little forked tongue out, slate-blue and spotted gold, on a pink coral perch.

Approx. Size: About 3.1 × 1.8 × 4.3 in (8 × 4.5 × 11 cm)
Material: Hand-painted resin
Line: Ancient Creatures

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Animal Heavenly Body

Ancient Creatures

Mosasaurus

Mosasaurus hoffmannii

Mosasaurus — the giant sea lizard of the Late Cretaceous — rearing up jaws-first with a little forked tongue out, slate-blue and spotted gold, on a pink coral perch.

THE MEUSE LIZARD · top predator of the last dinosaur seas

LivedLate Cretaceous, ~82–66 million years ago

Where FoundMaastricht, Netherlands — and worldwide

LengthEst. ~40–56 ft (12–17 m)

SignatureA two-lobed, shark-like tail fin

DietFish, sharks, cephalopods & sea turtles

Fun FactIts first skull was mistaken for a whale

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Hand-Painted Detail

Every scale, feather and marking is painted by hand to match the real animal — so detailed up close, so charming on the shelf.

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Ready to Display

A single, sturdy piece — no assembly, no fuss. Set it on a desk or shelf and it holds its pose, ready to collect and show off.

Mosasaurus wasn’t a dinosaur — it was a gigantic sea-going lizard, part of the same big family as today’s monitor lizards and snakes, and it ruled the oceans right up to the end of the Cretaceous. Our figure points its long snout skyward, jaws flung open and forked tongue flicking out, with a slate-blue back splashed in golden spots and a sunset-orange belly.

Named for a River

Mosasaurus means ‘Meuse lizard,’ after the Meuse River at Maastricht in the Netherlands, where its fossils were dug from chalk quarries in the 1700s.

A Fossil Taken as a Prize

When French troops took Maastricht in 1794, they carried the famous skull off to Paris. An old story says soldiers were paid 600 bottles of wine to find it — historians think that part is exaggerated.

A Tail Like a Shark

Mosasaurs swam with a paddle-shaped, two-lobed tail fin — that curl at the back of the figure — and steered with four flippers.

Why the Forked Tongue?

Tongues don’t fossilize, but mosasaurs were squamates, the lizard-and-snake group, so artists often give them a forked tongue like their living cousins. Ours flicks a little yellow one.

“A sea lizard the size of a bus, smiling for the camera.”

Craft & Specifications

Line	Ancient Creatures, by Animal Heavenly Body
Approx. Size	About 3.1 × 1.8 × 4.3 in (8 × 4.5 × 11 cm)
Material	Hand-painted resin
Display	Single figure — ready to display out of the box
SKU	AHB-ANC-05