Maiacetus ("mother whale") is a genus of early cetacean from the Habib Rahi Formation of Pakistan.

Hence, it is the tail that habitually rests closer to the cervix (Slijper, 1979). In Maiacetus inuus, the parturition orientation, whether head or tail first, may have had little to do with being born on …

Maiacetus was about 8 1/2 feet long, lived a little over 47 million years ago, and is interpreted as an amphibious whale that rested on land but hunted at sea. Fossils of Maiacetus inuus have …

Maiacetus wasn’t quite like the whales we know and love. It was an intermediate form between the group’s earliest ancestors and the fully marine versions that swim about today. For a start,...

Feb 3, 2009 · Just announced in the journal PLoS One, Maiacetus was a member of the Protocetidae, an extinct group of early whales that beautifully illustrate an important phase of …

Feb 3, 2009 · The researchers dubbed the creature Maiacetus inuus — Maiacetus means “mother whale” in Greek, and Inuus was a Roman fertility god — in part because one of the fossils …

In fact, it is the first discovery of a fetal skeleton of an extinct whale in the group known as Archaeoceti, and the find represents a new species dubbed Maiacetus inuus. (Maiacetus …

Distinct from Rodhocetus, Maiacetus had a straighter ventral margin of the mandible, a shorter neck and a longer, more robust tail. Basically this is a giant aquatic tenrec, like Hemicentetes …

An ancestor of the right whale, Maiacetus lived 49-40 million years ago. It had flipper-like limbs and webbed feet, like modern seals. But it also had ankle bones - clues that although …

Feb 4, 2009 · A team of researchers led by whale evolution expert Philip Gingerich discovered the remains - a largely complete adult male, and a female that was carrying a near-term fetus - …