Fun fact
Odobenocetops could move its head to a ridiculous extent, even more so than belugas

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for todays we drew Deinotherium, Odobenocetops, Ouranosaurus and Murrayglossus hacketti
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South American Pacific coast during the Late Miocene. A large Otodus megalodon approaches a pod of Odobenocetops leptodon, a tusked cetacean, and a group of the large penguin Spheniscus urbinai

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Love them or hate them, Odobenocetops leptodon was an extremely strange whale that was as sister to Monodontidae, the family that includes the Narwhal. That being said, their tusks developed independently and in Odo, they were uneven with the right side being considerably longer!

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Odobenocetops. I really enjoy working on these weirdos. WIP. Commission.

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Odobenocetops, why are you so weird? Sketches.

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If it’s not Odobenocetops just unfollow me rn.

Asymmetrically tusked lovechild of a whale and a walrus but definitely a whale.

Art by Pavel Riha https://t.co/osZAbaI2Xd

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Keep thinking about how we think of Odobenocetops (extinct tusked cetacean) as having one extremely long tusk and one very short but we only actually have a single male skull so this could have just been an anomaly and maybe they normally had two short tusks, or two long ones?

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Le mindfuck du jour offert par : un fossile, non pas d'une espèce apparentée au Morse... Mais d'un cétacé ! Remarquez notamment l'asymétrie bizarre des défenses d'Odobenocetops leptodon! https://t.co/b30LcLynk6

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Odobenocetops was a bizarre toothed whale from Peru & Chile. It looked like a cross between a walrus & a narwhal, with a elongated tusk. Its right tusk could grow to 1.3 metres, but the left one was just 25 cm.

(Credit: P. Riha)

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Odobenocetops was a bizarre toothed whale from Peru & Chile. It looked like a cross between a walrus & a narwhal, with a elongated tusk. Its right tusk could grow to 1.3 metres, but the left one was just 25 cm.

(Credit: P. Riha)

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