Paleontologists Discover Weird ‘Pokémon’ Ancestor of Modern Whales | NYGazet

Today’s whales are massive and mighty. Twenty-five million years ago, they were puny and freakish.

Researchers have named a bizarre, prehistoric species of whale discovered on a beach in Australia. Janjucetus dullardi “might have looked for all the world like some weird kind of mash-up between a whale, a seal, and a Pokémon,” according to Erich Fi... [838 chars]