#cetaceans

[fluffysheeps]

Cetacean cuties 🐋

[dougielombax]

Largest whale ‘graveyard’ discovered, with skeletons spanning 5 million years

The fossilized remains of more than 450 whales have amassed along a 750-mile-long stretch of the Indian Ocean floor

GRAVEWHALE!

A vast whale necropolis has been found

In the Indian Ocean, a deep-sea area roughly 1,200 kilometres long and 7 kilometres deep was found to harbour an ecological landmark site of

Okay seriously this is some fascinating shit.

And I don’t know shit about fossils, marine biology or ocean research.

Whale graveyard dating back five million years discovered

The Indian Ocean site is "far beyond anything we had imagined", one researcher says.

Fascinating stuff!

There’s a Moby Dick joke somewhere in there but I can’t articulate it.

Edit: This one is getting a lot of traction. Understandable admittedly.

[possumnest]

narwhals playing

[amanitahouses]

watercolor, marker, and construction paper digitally scanned and animated (stickers available here)

[snototter]

Amazon river dolphins (Inia geoffrensis) in an Amazonian floodplain forest, Rio Negro, Brazil

by Kevin Schafer

[opabinia--regalis]

the complete transition from basal whippomorphs to ambulocetids to basilosaurids to modern whales!

[sealsandlacenet]

crushing my whales brain (he’s gotten too smart, gotta give him a little brain damage to keep him silly)