New Discoveries and Lake
Monsters
A team led by Egyptian scientists have dug up a 43 million-year-old
fossil in the Sahara Desert in Egypt of a now-extinct amphibious four-legged
whale.
The authors of the study say that
this creature had "unique features of the skull" and that its
"mandible suggest a capacity for more efficient oral mechanical
processing.In other words, these walking whales had a "strong raptorial
feeding style.""We discovered how fierce and deadly its powerful jaws
are capable of tearing a wide range of prey ... this whale was a god of death
to most of the animals that lived in its area," Abdullah Gohar, one of the
scientists, told Insider.
The new whale is called Phiomicetus anubis, which the
scientists named in part after Anubis, the canine-headed Egyptian god
associated with mummification and the afterlife. It was likely a top predator
at the time, similar to what a killer whale is today.
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I
can see this as being the new explanation for lake monsters.Some have postulated that
ancient whales are lake monsters .....what will they make of this?
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