Now i got this idea from the James Rollins Book Ice Hunt

and i've been wondering to myself "did this thing ever really exsist, or did 1 clever author just make it up?"

your thoughts people?

i think land whale is something like sea cow, you know, big chunky animal who moving around is funny way

Do you have some more info on the land whale?

this may have been encouraged by beached whales or killer whales when then go on land to hunt seals, they speed up on the land, hop around to get the seal then hop back in the sea.

Yes it is true, land whales exist. If you go to Ashville North Carolina you just may catch a glimpse of my mother in law flopping and floundering her way down the street.

Funny, I thought more people would've been more concerned with the fabled land shark.

Maybe from a big bull sea elephant

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=land+whale

I know a land whale. Well thats not hits real name but thats what I call it...

Sorry Mum.

ROFL, I was just thinking of the beaches here at the height of summer............damn, land whales in bike shorts and tank tops should be illegal.

ROFLMAO

Its true, they should ban them. Man I saw one once when I was 10, so traumatised I couldn't return to the beach for years. It was wearing only a bikini! Oh the horror!

ok well Tia the infor your looking for would be in his description of the thing... dam i cant find the page it was on

but seeing as no1 else thinks its ture i really dont see a need for this thread anymore i men i think this should stop b4 sum1's scared for life with the horrible images ppl are painting about there mothers or mothers in law *looks at Undeadskeptic, psyche101 and evanj* dudes ouch much

Excuse me.... can you translate? Text code is not acceptable on UM because it changes too much

Hey undead,

Perhaps you could write us one of your excellent stories about this particular incident. I bet it would be your scariest yet.

Wasn't the thing in Ice Hunt a prehistoric ancestor of a whale?

well idk thats why i asked you and since all it got was ppl talking about fat chicks in bikinis (o so rong it is i mean really why do they have to show the fat... )

and now i think thats the whole deal so this thread really doesnt need to be around anymore and since Undead and Evanj insist on scarring us for life please close this down ASAP!!

well maybe you should provide link to land whale creature that you'r talking about

i dont really have a link it was in the book Ice Hunt by James Rollins and i thought he had based it on an actual creature however it seems he did not or that they were indeed the ancient ancestor of the whale of modern times but now i see no need for this thread and think it needs to go away mods please let me know mk?

i try to google images of land whale, and it comes to HIPPO

Dude, you are do not have the right to end a thread unless it is breaking the rules of conduct. If you don't like the thread ignore it till it goes off the main page.

It is a fact that there used to be creatures that were the ancestors of whales. They just found the fossils of another one here in the Northwest US.

I think unless the land whale was shrunk down to the size of a seal it would have been found by now, if not by actual people, then by satalite or airplane.

ya your right but i mean what if there was an ice station grendel with the stuff that happend, shure it's probably not there and maybe it never was but hey what if right?

People should be able to post their thoughts without someone saying, "Close the thread."

Did anyone do a search for this Ice Station Grendal? Are we sure it did not exist? Probably there was no land whale, but what if this is based on a true story that instead had a walrus or elephant seal as the creature?

A quick google search shows that most likely it is only a book, but maybe someone who has good Kung Fu could find something more.

Land whale aka..Jabba the Hut.

k dude i have to say this LMAO!!! nice one for once....

and Die Checker your right i think i will make a google search about it

I am pretty sure it is not based after a true story, as there are plenty of other impossibilities in the book.

Here is a book review link

well most of his stuff he does base a little on real life, well all of the sciencey stuff anyways...

For most of his books (or at least what I heard, I haven't read them all) he does, but this one was kind of lacking in that aspect. The "land whale" did exist at one point in time however, as whales and dolphins (or at least their ancestors) started out on land.

The following two animals are eye-openers in this case:

1) Pakicetus (The first known cetacean that existed in the Eocene epoch in Pakistan)

2) Ambulocetus (Also known as the "Walking Whale," existed in the Eocene epoch in Pakistan)

An illustration of Ambulocetus:

Um.. isn't everything Eric Raven posts funny?

well not really, also thanks megaman thats pretty helpful

Ambulocetus was also in Europe. An excellent transition animal.

Doubt they live on today, but there are the Australian bunyips and from NZ i caught a story about a swimming dog in the nearby river which was very dangerous and highly resembled an early semi-aquatic cetacen.

What exactly is a bunyip anyway? Ive heard that theres a number of different explanations

Its like a seal or a walrus that lives in Australian lakes and rivers.