#cetacean evolution

[onlyscarcelyscaly]

While I work on getting my major projects to a stage where I think they're worth sharing, here's some very loose sketches of five Archaeocetes staring straight down the camera, obviously looking most dignified from this angle. Drawn from memory, probably not quite accurate, nonetheless fun.

Mechanical pencil on paper from Reese's cup packaging, 2025

[typhlonectes]

This whale may be the largest animal ever. We have no idea how it got that big.

A newly discovered extinct whale called P. colossus is challenging the blue whale for the title of heaviest animal to ever exist.

Dubbed by its discoverers Perucetus colossus, or simply P. colossus, the titanic animal may not be just a record setter. P. colossus is also compelling scientists to reconsider their ideas about how animals are able to grow to gigantic sizes. “This is another way in which you can get big,” said Hans Thewissen, a paleontologist and whale evolution expert at Northeast Ohio Medical University. With a body that looked vaguely like that of a manatee rather than a blue whale’s, it clearly did something different than other whales to maintain its huge mass...

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/08/02/largest-animal-whale-p-colossus

[thelonelywhale]

Pakicetus - ancient cetacean or snooty hippo? Went for a chonkier, more sparsely-haired reconstruction of Ye Olde Whale.

[onlyscarcelyscaly]

Peregocetus pacificus  Digital painting (Photoshop) 2019

[onlyscarcelyscaly]

Kutchicetus minimus on a Beach

Acrylic on canvas

2018

[onlyscarcelyscaly]

Work in progress: Peregocetus underwater. Some changes should probably be made to the proportions of the one that's already there, as well as adding more details to it, and also adding more Peregocetus elsewhere in the composition

[onlyscarcelyscaly]

“Harudi Formation equirectangular panorama” Oil on papered globe 2017

[havingawhaleovatime]

Globicetus hiberus

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