Summary: <p>It’s been too long since we discussed whales, so this week let’s learn about how whales evolved and some especially strange or mysterious whales!</p> <p>Pakicetus was probably kind of piggy-looking, but with a crocodile snout:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-680" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Pakicetus_Canada-300x225.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="225"></p> <p>Protocetids were more actually whale-like but still not all that whale-like:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-681" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/paddling-Rodhocetus-kasrani-300x95.png" alt="" width="300" height="95"></p> <p>Now we’re getting whaley! Here’s basilosaurus, with a dinosaur name because the guy who found it thought it was a reptile:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-682" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/basilosaurus-size-300x83.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="83"></p> <p>Here’s the skull of a male strap-toothed whale (left). Those flat strips are the teeth:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-683" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/straptoothed-whale-skull-249x300.jpg" alt="" width="249" height="300"></p> <p>Another view. See how the teeth grow up from the lower jaw and around the upper jaw?</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-684" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/straptoothedwhaleskull-300x177.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="177"></p> <p>A dead pygmy right whale:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-685" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/deadpygmyrightwhale-300x160.png" alt="" width="300" height="160"></p> <p>The walrus whale may have looked sort of like this:</p> <p><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-686" src="http://strangeanimalspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Odoben-300x144.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="144"></p> <p>The half-beak porpoise had a chin that just would not quit:</p> <p><img class="alignnone s"></p>
