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Which part of the Pakicetus anatomy most suggests that it is an ancestor of whales?

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Burka [1]2 years ago

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Pakicetus had an ear bone with a characteristic specific to whales and a distinctive long skull shape of a whale's.

Pakicetus

• Pakicetus was a wolf-sized animal and was a carnivore that at certain occasions consumed fish had exhibited features of its anatomy that associated it to the modern cetaceans, porpoises, whales, and dolphins.

• It had the body of a land animal, however, its head exhibited the distinctive long skull similar to a whale.

• With time, the fossils also showed that Pakicetus possessed an ear bone with a characteristic specific to whales.

Thus, pakicetus can be considered as the first whale who exhibited certain similar anatomic features like that of a whale.

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