Characteristics/ History
Their 4 long legs tells us they lived in what kind of place?
Land
Was it an early stage or a late stage in the transition from land mammals to marine mammals?
One of the earliest stages of transition
This country is where fossils of a 50-million-year-old early whale ancestor were discovered
Pakistan
Pakicetus fossils are important because they show the transition from living on land to living in what place?
Ocean
This type of fossil shows traits of both an ancestor and its descendants, providing evidence of evolution over time.
Transitional fossil
This evolutionary process makes helpful traits like Pakicetus water-hunting adaptions, more common over time.
Natural selection
A special ear bone show that they are related to what animal today?
Whales!
Pakicetus shows the first development of this sense, important for whales that live in the water.
Underwater hearing
Where did these early whale ancestors go to hunt and feed on their food?
Shallow Water
These features of Pakicetus suggest that, despite looking like a land animal, it hunted in shallow water.
Limb proportions and teeth