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{{The Land Before Time character (Antagonist)
|name=Sharptooth Swimmer
|image=[[File:Pliosaur_10.png|300px]]
|gender=Male
|color=Dark brown (black at night)
Grey
|eye color=Yellow
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|food=Meat
|start={{Film|9}}
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|voice actor=Stock tiger, crocodilian, and walrus sounds
|status =Alive
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A male sharptooth appears in {{Film|9}} as the sole antagonist of the film. It is a '''[[Swimming Sharptooth]]''' (though this one is referred to as a Sharptooth Swimmer) and is the only [[Sharptooth]] to appear in the film.

==History==
The sharptooth first appears in the opening of {{Film|9}}, where it is seen jumping out of the water in an attempt to attack a ''[[Pteranodon]]''. However, the Flyer is able to escape the jaws of the Swimming Sharptooth, who then proceeds to swim deeper into the ocean.

Later on in the film, when floods create strange 'new water' in the [[Great Valley]], [[Mo]] and the sharptooth are trapped in the Great Valley by this new water. He appears in the flooded [[Great Valley]], swimming through the water looking for food. He then heads to the shore, noticing [[Littlefoot]] and his friends. He attacks, nearly eating them, but he is tied up by [[Mo|Mo.]] He later escapes however, and soon after a destructive earthquake occurs. When the event of the earthshake scares him away into a cave, large rocks crash down in the entrance of it, trapping him. Because of this, Mo called the earthshake a 'good' one, despite the fact that it separates Littlefoot and his friends from their families.

While Littlefoot and his gang continues on forward in the film, a scene shows that the sharptooth is about to break free from the cave, and he goes on after them.

He reappears near the climax of the film, where he attacks the gang again in a rainstorm, nearly killing them. The gang try to climb up a steep hill by the shore to escape, but due to the rain, it is slippery and they fall back down. [[Petrie]] meanwhile flies up into the air to escape, but is struck by lightning and falls towards the water. The sharptooth then catches the [[Flyer]]'s wing in his jaws, but is hit by a log that fell along with Petrie. Petrie flies out and as the sharptooth recovers, the gang hide inside the log. After listening for a while, Littlefoot looks to get out, but [[Cera]] says to be quiet because the Sharptooth Swimmer might still be out there. She is then cut off by the shaking of the log. Then, the Sharptooth Swimmer picks the log up and smashes it into the water multiple times, before throwing it hundreds of feet away.

As he nears the log as they are all sore, Mo comes to the rescue, jumping on the head of the sharptooth. The sharptooth throws him off into the water though, incapacitating Mo for a short time. As the Sharptooth Swimmer nears him, he sticks out his tongue at it and slaps it on the face lightly, and swims away, seemingly sacrificing himself to save his friends. In the end, both aquatics survive the showdown as Mo hides in a hollow tree, and a sudden sense of attention comes to the Sharptooth when he smells the scent of the Big Water (ocean). He then leaves the river path and swims into the sea. He has not been seen since.

==Trivia==
*The ''Liopleurodon'' in ''Walking With Dinosaurs'' is white and grey as seen in depictions of the animal while the sharptooth in ''Journey To Big Water'' is more grey and black.
*While not officially confirmed, this sharptooth seems to be a depiction of ''Liopleurodon''.
*This sharptooth's crocodile and walrus sound effects were used for most future sharpteeth in the later sequels.

==Gallery==
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