Happy #WorldWhaleDay !
Did you know that despite fossils being mistaken for a mosasaur, Basilosaurus was actually a prehistoric archaeocete whale 🐋
Happy #WorldWhaleDay ! Here’s a cool clip filmed from a tag deployed on a #KillerWhale feeding at the Norwegian spring-spawning herring grounds! It’s always exciting studying these fascinating animals 🐟🐳
Happy #WorldWhaleDay ! Here's your daily reminder that giant raptorial sperm whales were a thing and we got shortchanged when none of them survived to modern times. U.u
Bit late to #WorldWhaleDay but I wanted to share my Basilosaurus drawing from 2019 again, still very proud that this made it to the english Wikipedia entry for this species