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Habitat: Coastal Waters around the World, the U.S. East Coast in Partucular.

Favorite Food: Surf & Turf.

Last visit to the Western Prom: 40-45 million years ago, when whales still walked on land, sometimes.

Favorite Constellations: Qayttas, the Whale; Cetus, the Whale; Cetus, the Sea Monster; Ad-Dulfin, the Dolphin; Delfinius, the Dolphin; Capricornus, the Sea Goat.

Alter-Egos: The English Whale is a sea monster, depicted on a map of Iceland drawn by Abraham Ortelius around the year 1590. Its accompanying description matches that of a modern blue whale. Blue Whales are the largest animals ever known to have existed. They can be up to 100 feet long with a tongue that weighs over 3 tons. Blue Whales do not have teeth, they have baleen.

“The English whale is thirty ells (113 ft.) long. It hath no teeth, but its tongue is seven ells (26 ft.) in length. ”

— Map of Islandia, or Iceland. Abraham Ortelius, 1590.

Modern whales are marine mammals that live in the sea, but they evolved from mammals that lived on land. They are related to Hippopotomai, another group of mammals that loves water. Protocetids like Crenatocetus and Georgiacetus are the ancestors of modern whales. They were amphibious animals that walked on four legs, but also swam in the sea with fluked tails. Here are some representations and reconstructions of Protocetidae and some images of sea monsters that resemble them. As far as we know those resemblances are coincidental.

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