Sunday, August 5, 2007

Ctelecene (Marsupila whale)

Cetelecene (a marsupial sperm whale)
I made this up on holiday in portugal.
A cetelecene is a marsupial whale.

A male adult cetelecene is 40 meteres long. A female is 38 metres long.

Its young are not palcental animals like other whales and when they are born, they are not ready to leave their mother yet. They have to stay in a pouch for the first 10 months of their lives after which they can swim in and out of it until they are 2 years old. The pouch is located on the mother's head and the whale's blow hole allows lots of oxygen into the pouch which will last the young whale for up to 30 minutes. This allows the mother to dive to depths of up to 100m to search for food. When their is no baby whale the mother can dive to depths of up to 1500m.

The cetelecene is easy to confuse with a sperm whale and this is why they were not discovered until very recently.
Mosasaur
This is a mosasaur.
it can be up to 12m.
in the late cretaceous.
This is a picture I composed last year using paintshop pro.

Liopleurodon

LIOPLEURODONS WERE UP TO 25m LONG AND SOME ARE THOUGHT TO BE BIGGER. THEY ARE AMBUSH PREDATORS THAT RELY ON SMELL.
(TOP SPEED: 45km ph) (WEIGHT 150tons)
WHAT ARE THEY? A SHORT-NECKED PLESIOSAUR.
(NAME MEANS SMOOTH-SIDED TOOTH])
THE HEAD ALONE IS OVER 3m LONG AND
FINS ARE 4m ALONE!!! TEETH ARE
HALF A METRE LONG 50cm! DIET:ANYTHING
IT IS AN OMNIVORE!
FOSSIL FINDS: IRISH SEA, MEXICO,
AFRICIA AND ASIA.
WHEN WAS IT ALIVE? 160-155 MILLION YEARS AGO (MID JURASSIC TO MID CRETACEOUS)
IT IS THE LARGEST PREDATOR OF ALLTIME!!!!