Timeline of Whales| HouseCetacea by Eyer Toofiel Macarubbo https://padlet.com/eyeralfaro25/3h4jg0hxhznmricq What is cetaceans? Any member of the order Cetacea, which includes whales, dolphins, and porpoises, which are all aquatic mammals. Cetaceans breathe air, give birth to live young, produce milk, and have hair, all of which are characteristics of mammals, according to the ancient Greeks. Cetaceans, on the other hand, were often lumped in with the fishes due to their body shape. en-us 2021-09-21 06:01:07 UTC 2025-03-13 00:56:06 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f42c.png Evolution | The Whales eyeralfaro25 https://padlet.com/eyeralfaro25/3h4jg0hxhznmricq/wish/1756496020 2021-09-21 08:33:33 UTC https://padlet.com/eyeralfaro25/3h4jg0hxhznmricq/wish/1756496020 375 Million years ago to 65 million years ago eyeralfaro25 https://padlet.com/eyeralfaro25/3h4jg0hxhznmricq/wish/1756507046 Significant People involved: 
  • Thewissen JGM
  • Cooper LN
  • Clementz MT
  • Bajpai S, Tiwari BN

After dinosaur mass extinction, the earliest cetaceans looked amphibious and eventually evolved to possess mammal features which are far from whales we see today.


]]> 2021-09-21 08:39:25 UTC https://padlet.com/eyeralfaro25/3h4jg0hxhznmricq/wish/1756507046 Contributions eyeralfaro25 https://padlet.com/eyeralfaro25/3h4jg0hxhznmricq/wish/1756516950 Phylogenetic inference is the study of how organisms are linked to one another, and ideas about phylogeny are represented by a cladogram, a branching diagram that connects more-and-more closely related groups as closer-and-closer branches.


]]> 2021-09-21 08:44:17 UTC https://padlet.com/eyeralfaro25/3h4jg0hxhznmricq/wish/1756516950 50 Million years ago eyeralfaro25 https://padlet.com/eyeralfaro25/3h4jg0hxhznmricq/wish/1756545245 Significant people involved:
Aslan and Thewissen (1997)

Appearance of first whales (Pakicetus) in the land
It was identified through genetic similarities that Cetaceans have a common ancestor with modern-day artiodactyls such as the cow, pig, camel, giraffe, and hippopotamus

Complex Description for Pakicetus: 
  • Typical land animals
  • Long skulls and large carnivorous teeth
  • Ear region resembles those of living whales 
  • 1 to 2 meters long

]]> 2021-09-21 08:57:43 UTC https://padlet.com/eyeralfaro25/3h4jg0hxhznmricq/wish/1756545245 47 million years ago eyeralfaro25 https://padlet.com/eyeralfaro25/3h4jg0hxhznmricq/wish/1756554126 Significant People Involved: 
  • Madar SI
  • Thewissen JGM
  • Hussain ST

Early ancestors found escape from predators underwater, and also to feed. However, the decision on which role in the food chain they are classified: omnivore or herbivore wasn't clarified.

Complex description for Ambulocetus:
  • More aquatic lifestyle 
  • Legs are shorter and webbed; hands and feets are enlarged like paddles; longer and more muscular.
  • Could live in fresh and saltwater alike.


]]> 2021-09-21 09:02:18 UTC https://padlet.com/eyeralfaro25/3h4jg0hxhznmricq/wish/1756554126 42 million years ago eyeralfaro25 https://padlet.com/eyeralfaro25/3h4jg0hxhznmricq/wish/1756558126 Significant People Involved:
A. Ranga Rao 

Unclear picture to figure out the migration occurrences of the whales. Bones of Indohyus (closest relative of cetaceans) were found in the Himalaya mountains near the border between Pakistan and India.]]> 2021-09-21 09:04:20 UTC https://padlet.com/eyeralfaro25/3h4jg0hxhznmricq/wish/1756558126 34 Million Years Ago eyeralfaro25 https://padlet.com/eyeralfaro25/3h4jg0hxhznmricq/wish/1756560186 Significant People Involved:
Fordyce E, Muizon Cd (2001)

  • This is due to rapid ecological changes in the oceans where today’s whales became divided into 2 major groups: odontocetes (toothed whales) and mysticetes (baleen whales)
  • Introductions to the evolutionary history of odontocetes and mysticetes have been published 



]]> 2021-09-21 09:05:25 UTC https://padlet.com/eyeralfaro25/3h4jg0hxhznmricq/wish/1756560186 15 milliom years - 4.5 million years ago eyeralfaro25 https://padlet.com/eyeralfaro25/3h4jg0hxhznmricq/wish/1756561426 2021-09-21 09:06:04 UTC https://padlet.com/eyeralfaro25/3h4jg0hxhznmricq/wish/1756561426 1832 eyeralfaro25 https://padlet.com/eyeralfaro25/3h4jg0hxhznmricq/wish/1756563722 Reviewed the fossils donated by Judge H. Bry and Judge John Creagh and noticed similarities to extinct marine reptiles including long-necked plesiosaurs and streamlined ichthyosaurs (Basilosaurus).  ]]> 2021-09-21 09:07:18 UTC https://padlet.com/eyeralfaro25/3h4jg0hxhznmricq/wish/1756563722 1839 eyeralfaro25 https://padlet.com/eyeralfaro25/3h4jg0hxhznmricq/wish/1756565255 Complex Description for Basilosaurus: 
  • Share traits with marine reptiles
  • Identified as mammal
  • Inner ear matched a whale
  • Carefully scrutinized every bone and studied the teeth sample under the microscope. 




]]> 2021-09-21 09:08:07 UTC https://padlet.com/eyeralfaro25/3h4jg0hxhznmricq/wish/1756565255 1871 eyeralfaro25 https://padlet.com/eyeralfaro25/3h4jg0hxhznmricq/wish/1756566978 Representation of Basilosaurus Whales as a transitional form
  • Darwin wrote a small note regarding Basilosaurus while preparing for the 6th edition of his book "Origin of Species


]]> 2021-09-21 09:09:04 UTC https://padlet.com/eyeralfaro25/3h4jg0hxhznmricq/wish/1756566978 1871 eyeralfaro25 https://padlet.com/eyeralfaro25/3h4jg0hxhznmricq/wish/1756568037
  • According to Huxley,  there could be little doubt that Basilosaurus provided clues as to the ancestry of whales
  • Huxley also thought that Basilosaurus at least represented the type of animal that linked whales to their terrestrial ancestors

    • Introduction of Squadlon
    • a fossil dolphin with a wicked smile full of triangular teeth
    • Huxley said that Squadlon similarly hinted that whales had evolved from meat-eating ancestors.

    ]]>     2021-09-21 09:09:38 UTC https://padlet.com/eyeralfaro25/3h4jg0hxhznmricq/wish/1756568037     1871 eyeralfaro25 https://padlet.com/eyeralfaro25/3h4jg0hxhznmricq/wish/1756569920
  • He said that cetaceans might have better alternative models for the earliest terrestrial whales, such as semi-aquatic otters & beavers
  • He also thought that ungulates/hoofed mammals’ skeletal were identical with whales

    • ]]>     2021-09-21 09:10:41 UTC https://padlet.com/eyeralfaro25/3h4jg0hxhznmricq/wish/1756569920     1890 eyeralfaro25 https://padlet.com/eyeralfaro25/3h4jg0hxhznmricq/wish/1756572495 Fossils of Basilosaurus were hard to find 
    • E.D. Cope wrote a review regarding whales. According to Cope, "The order Cetacea is one of those of whose origin, we have no definite knowledge.” 


    ]]>     2021-09-21 09:12:03 UTC https://padlet.com/eyeralfaro25/3h4jg0hxhznmricq/wish/1756572495     1966 eyeralfaro25 https://padlet.com/eyeralfaro25/3h4jg0hxhznmricq/wish/1756574185 Relationship of Cetaceans & ancient meat-eating mammals were investigated
    • Van Valen suggested that mesonychids were quite identical with the earliest known whales, because it appears that the teeth of mesonychids were similar with those of the whales' like Protocetus.
    • Van Valen thought of mesonychids to be marsh dwellers and even suggested that once they had begun swimming for their supper, succeeding generations would become more and more aquatically adapted until something “as monstrous as a whale” evolved

    ]]>     2021-09-21 09:12:56 UTC https://padlet.com/eyeralfaro25/3h4jg0hxhznmricq/wish/1756574185     1981 eyeralfaro25 https://padlet.com/eyeralfaro25/3h4jg0hxhznmricq/wish/1756578959 Significant People Involved:
    Philip Gingerich 
    Donald Russel

    • Philip Gingerich & Donald Russel were able to recover freshwater sediments from approximately 53 million years ago along with fossils from Pakicetus inachus--which were believed to be connected to cetaceans since it exhibited pachyosteosclerosis. 
    • It was also found that the teeth of the Pakicetus from its two jaw fragments were similar to mesonychids--supporting Van Valen's hypothesis of mesonychids being marsh-dwelling animals.
    • Both paleontologists suggested that Pakicetus were "an amphibious intermediate stage in the transition of whales from land to sea,” though they added the caveat that “Postcranial remains/bones other than the skull will provide the best test of this hypothesis.”

    ]]>     2021-09-21 09:15:23 UTC https://padlet.com/eyeralfaro25/3h4jg0hxhznmricq/wish/1756578959     eyeralfaro25 https://padlet.com/eyeralfaro25/3h4jg0hxhznmricq/wish/1756580455 Pakicetus were presented on televisions & magazines to be a "stumpy-legged, seal-like creature"


    ]]>     2021-09-21 09:16:12 UTC https://padlet.com/eyeralfaro25/3h4jg0hxhznmricq/wish/1756580455     1990s eyeralfaro25 https://padlet.com/eyeralfaro25/3h4jg0hxhznmricq/wish/1756586757 Significant person involved:
    Dr. B. Holly Smith
    Phillip Gingerich


    ]]>     2021-09-21 09:19:24 UTC https://padlet.com/eyeralfaro25/3h4jg0hxhznmricq/wish/1756586757     2001 eyeralfaro25 https://padlet.com/eyeralfaro25/3h4jg0hxhznmricq/wish/1756594801 Significant people involved:
    J.G.M. Thewissen & et. al.

    Opposed that the fossils of Pakicetus were evidence of an ancient  whale.
    • suggested that the fossil remains were ong-sought skeleton (as opposed to just the skull) of Pakicetus attocki, depicting it as a wolf-like animal rather than a slick, sea-like animal. 
    • He suggested that the fossils were rather a document regarding the evolutionary radiation of early whales of archaeocetes and not a series of direct ancestors/descendants but fits in the recent discovered genera such as Himalayacetus, Ambulocetus, Remingtonocetus, Kutchicetus, Rodhocetus and Maiacetus.
    • Suggested that  the earliest form of the famous archaeocetes were the Pakicetus & the slightly older Himalayacetus and were said to be more living in the land thank in the water
    •  Ambulocetus appeared million years later and were described as a whale with a crocodile-like skull and large webbed feet
    • A long-snouted  long-snouted and otter-like remingtonocetids appeared next, including small forms like the 46-million-year-old Kutchicetus and it appears that these kinds of whale inhabited near-shore environments, encompassing saltwater marshes to shallow sea
    • At the same time of the existence of remingtonocetids, protocetids also existed, but they are more aquatically adapted. They lived nearly entirely aquatic, and some later protocetids, like Protocetus and Georgiacetus, were almost certainly inhabiting in the sea their entire lives which gave way to fully aquatic whales to expand their ranges to the shores of other continents and diversify, and the sleeker basilosaurids like Dorudon, Basilosaurus and Zygorhiza populated the warm seas of the late Eocene
    • However, these creatures deceased, yet gave rise to early representatives of two groups of whales existing currently, the toothed whale & baleen whale
    • The astragalus (an ankle bone) from artiodactyls were described as having a "double pully" shape, were not present in mesonychids. However, archaeocetes which have this kind of bones were described, which confirms that cetaceans evolved from artiodactyls. It was found that Mesochynids were not the ancestors of whales & hippos.






    ]]>     2021-09-21 09:23:28 UTC https://padlet.com/eyeralfaro25/3h4jg0hxhznmricq/wish/1756594801     2007 eyeralfaro25 https://padlet.com/eyeralfaro25/3h4jg0hxhznmricq/wish/1756597758 Significant person involved:
    J.G.M. Thewissen

    A student from Thewissen's lab found that the inner ear of the Indohyus where similar to the bones in whale ears, moreover, the skeleton also contains bones marked by an identical type of thickening, which is an adaptation shared by mammals that spent a lot of time in the water, therefore, regarding Indohyus (a deer-like mammal) belongs to raoellids (group of extinct artiodactyls), which was, apparently, the closest relative to whales.]]>     2021-09-21 09:24:55 UTC https://padlet.com/eyeralfaro25/3h4jg0hxhznmricq/wish/1756597758     2009 eyeralfaro25 https://padlet.com/eyeralfaro25/3h4jg0hxhznmricq/wish/1756600238 A new whale family was discovered.
    Jonathan Geisler & Jennifer Theodor
    Combined genetic data with fossils data discovering a new family tree & whales were finally firmly rooted in the mammal evolutionary tree

    ]]>     2021-09-21 09:26:12 UTC https://padlet.com/eyeralfaro25/3h4jg0hxhznmricq/wish/1756600238     2011 eyeralfaro25 https://padlet.com/eyeralfaro25/3h4jg0hxhznmricq/wish/1756602543 An international team of palaeontologists from Peru, France, Italy, the Netherlands, and Belgium
    • the discovered fossils were said to be four meter long (13 ft) and was adapted to swim & walk on land.
    • It was discovered in marine sediments inland from Peru's pacific coast, at Playa Media Luna, and is said to be "the most complete specimen ever found for a four-legged whale outside of India & Pakistan" by Dr. Oliver Lambert.
    • It was named Peregocetus Pacificus which means "the travelling whale that reached the Pacific".


    ]]>     2021-09-21 09:27:25 UTC https://padlet.com/eyeralfaro25/3h4jg0hxhznmricq/wish/1756602543     2012 eyeralfaro25 https://padlet.com/eyeralfaro25/3h4jg0hxhznmricq/wish/1756605841
  • Thompson et al. (2012) conducted DNA analysis which revealed the identity of the world’s rarest whale, the spade-toothed beaked whale (Mesoplodon traversii).
  • Thompson et al. (2012) yielded the first morphological description and photos of the mysterious species.

    • ]]>     2021-09-21 09:29:08 UTC https://padlet.com/eyeralfaro25/3h4jg0hxhznmricq/wish/1756605841     2016 eyeralfaro25 https://padlet.com/eyeralfaro25/3h4jg0hxhznmricq/wish/1756607097 Blaire et al. (2016) gathered evidence that suggests exposure to low-frequency ship noise may be linked to chronic stress in whales, which has consequences for all baleen whales in high-traffic locations as well as the recovery of the endangered right whale population.]]> 2021-09-21 09:29:50 UTC https://padlet.com/eyeralfaro25/3h4jg0hxhznmricq/wish/1756607097 2019 eyeralfaro25 https://padlet.com/eyeralfaro25/3h4jg0hxhznmricq/wish/1756609441 Yamada et al. (2019) provided morphological evidence which recognized a new species of the genus Berardius (giant beaked whale) and named them Berardius minimus. Yamada et al. (2019) described the new species as whales with a unique appearance - having a significantly smaller body size than physically mature adults, a proportionately shorter beak, a darker body color, and visible cookie-cutter shark bites.]]> 2021-09-21 09:31:07 UTC https://padlet.com/eyeralfaro25/3h4jg0hxhznmricq/wish/1756609441 2020 eyeralfaro25 https://padlet.com/eyeralfaro25/3h4jg0hxhznmricq/wish/1756611418 Dr. Kirsten Thompson
    • study from Zerbini & et. al., suggests that from the coast of Brazil and Antarctic waters, it was found that during summer, the whales can now be found in sort of numbers.
    ]]>     2021-09-21 09:32:02 UTC https://padlet.com/eyeralfaro25/3h4jg0hxhznmricq/wish/1756611418     Currently-- 2021 eyeralfaro25 https://padlet.com/eyeralfaro25/3h4jg0hxhznmricq/wish/1756614545 A new species of whale, Rice’s whale has been identified in the Gulf of Mexico.

    • Rice’s whale is a member of the Balaenopteridae family of baleen whales (Southeast Regional Office, 2021).
    • They are one of the world's most endangered whales, with potentially fewer than 100 individuals left (Southeast Regional Office, 2021).
    • Rice’s whale is named after Dale Rice, a marine mammal scientist who discovered the species in the Gulf of Mexico (Southeast Regional Office, 2021).

    Dr. Patricia Rosel

    • Dr. Rosel examined the first genetic data gathered from NOAA Fisheries vessel surveys in the Gulf of Mexico (Fisheries, 2021).
    • She discovered a collection of bones near the top of the skull that separates Rice's whales from other species (Cowan, 2021).
    • Dr. Rosel published findings in Marine Mammal Science in 2021 that confirmed that Rice’s whales in the Gulf of Mexico are not Bryde’s whales (Cowan, 2021).
    ]]>     2021-09-21 09:33:30 UTC https://padlet.com/eyeralfaro25/3h4jg0hxhznmricq/wish/1756614545     References eyeralfaro25 https://padlet.com/eyeralfaro25/3h4jg0hxhznmricq/wish/1756615219
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    ]]>     2021-09-21 09:33:52 UTC https://padlet.com/eyeralfaro25/3h4jg0hxhznmricq/wish/1756615219     Group Cetacea eyeralfaro25 https://padlet.com/eyeralfaro25/3h4jg0hxhznmricq/wish/1756657782 Leaders:
    Macarubbo, Eyer Toofiel A.
    Mendoza, Aubrey Anne Dominique
    Members
    Alagos, Sheena Mae
    Lagaya, Raine
    Moril, Phoemela Nicole
    Obispo, Mikhaella


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