The Maiacetus Beach life on our Planet

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[@TheJAIHIND101]

As an Indian living close to Pakistan border, it just gives me goosebumps that scenes like this would have unfolded barely miles away from where I am standing, millions of years ago. (Maiacetus fossils were found in Pakistan).
Makes me humble thinking that someone will be thinking about us, millions of years from now, standing where I stand, barely miles away from the border.

[@veggieboyultimate]

Makes me wonder if modern otters and seals could evolve into giants in the far future

[@kennethsatria6607]

Depends if seals go extinct or not

[@harisatryo3760]

@@kennethsatria6607
*Well said about this certain idea* here, Kenneth Satria-6607...🤔🧐

[@andrewcrowley6331]

Best proto-whale depiction since Ambulocetus from WWB.
Also I like how they showed an Otodus shark that wasn’t Megalodon.

[@anthonybusch4407]

Otodus is both a relative and ancestor of Megalodon.

[@harisatryo3760]

​@@anthonybusch4407
Well played regarding this comment right here ya, Andrew Crowley-6331 and Anthony Busch-4407...🤔🦈

[@davidfiore4677]

Funny how Maiacetus is related to whales, yet they seem to act like seals and sea lions while resting on land. How ironic.

[@aydemsadventure3752]

I feel like seals and sealions are on their way to once become a whale too. Or something alike.

[@BigBoiFobbs2011]

​@@aydemsadventure3752Yeah maybe in the future

[@joeo.6768]

Especially similar to Nothosaurus, who also act like seals and sea lions.

[@adriannegrete9586]

​@@joeo.6768yes because Nothosaurus are the ancestors to the Plesiosaurs.

[@joeo.6768]

Actually, Nothosaurus are not the ancestors of Plesiosaurs but rather they are the cousin ancestors of Plesiosaurs and a separate genus. @@adriannegrete9586

[@Cyberraptor14]

In Ireland, there is this mythological creature called the Dobhar-chú. This animal could very well be it

[@johnbradshaw2347]

It sure is. According to the legend, its name means otter king, and it is believed to be half otter and half dog. Judging from the fossils, these mammals do like a cross between an otter and a dog. So I think they're more related to them than they are to whales. So we should rename them to Telkinids after another mythological creature, the Telkines from Greek folklore, which were described as Sea Dogs.

[@anthonybusch4407]

I’ve heard of Ambulocetus before, but never Maiacetus, until now.

[@jaisanatanrashtra7035]

Wait untill the Pakicetus from Pakistan arrives 😂💕🇮🇳

[@anthonybusch4407]

Hmmmm, sounds interesting.

[@harisatryo3760]

@@anthonybusch4407
Well done, Anthony Busch-4407...😌

[@masterjesseg]

It’s very interesting to know where some of the whales have come from. Even from this early creature Maiacetus looks very interesting.

[@cm94returns19]

they might have behaved like seals and otters today because they come to land to give birth and form a huge colony where the name maiacetus means mother whale when they first found it it shows a mother died while giving birth

[@MH-ms1dg]

Now THIS was unique!

[@rafaelmarangoni]

You could see maiacetus as ancestor to whales (if you think only neoceti are whales), or as to ancestor of *modern* whales, being maiacetus a whale itself (if you think all cetaceans are whales). Afterall, maiacetus was already a cetacean (it already had the pachyosteoclerotic involucrum of the timpanic bone). Personally, I don’t see any problem with _cetacea_ being the clade of whales.

[@aleksandarvil5718]

Maiacetus!Whales = *Seals / Sea Lions 2.0*

[@prasannawanigasooriya9371]

1.0 actually

[@dolsopolar]

more like otters

[@BigBoiFobbs2011]

First

[@maozilla9149]

cool

[@dynamoterror18]

This was a legitimate good scene from a less than impressive show.

[@rahadianaryo5979]

Ahh yes, Dynamoterror #18...😏😙👌