#maiacetus

Apteribis, Parachoerodon, Lavanttalornis and Maiacetus.

maiacetus basking spot woes

Something about all their teeth connects to me idk.

Let's become semiaquatic with mama

maiacetus my beloved playing with bubbles <3 that was my first ever whale to draw, had no idea what i was doing but it was fun anyway :_)

Le maiacetus child is practicing le banana pose

Maiacetus (mother whale) was a semi aquatic cetacean that lived around 47 million years ago. At this point, cetaceans were still not fully aquatic, but swimming would have been much easier than walking. Maiacetus and other protocetids, likely spent most of their time in the water, but would have returned to land to give birth. Maiacetus is known from only two specimens, one of which was found with a fossilized fetus, not yet birthed. Modern whales give birth underwater tail first as opposed to land animals that typically give birth head first.

doing my best not to make the skin on the head to tight LOL I think it’s ugly when it looks like that…