Basilosaurus isis was a whale. A 55-foot, serpentine, multi-toothed, apex predator of a whale that looked nothing like what the word whale currently brings to mind. It lived 34 to 40 million years ago during the Eocene Period and represented an early, deeply unsettling chapter in cetacean evolution. The modern whale is what happened after nature had several million years to reconsider.

Fossil evidence from Egypt's Wadi Al-Hitan — the Valley of the Whales — puts it at the top of the Eocene food chain, hunting fish and smaller whales with a body type that evolution would spend the next 34 million years quietly reconsidering.

Tooth
Species: Basilosaurus isis
Origin: Kem Kem Beds, Morroco
Length: 5 in

Display stand
Material: 88
Width: 4 in
Length: 3 in
Weight: 24 oz

Statuette
Material: Steel infused PLA
Width: 3 in
Length: 5.5 in
Weight: 100 oz

Our sea monster fossils are not factory produced. Each tooth has spent between 15 and 100 million years underground before arriving at your door — minor surface variations, natural color differences, and the occasional imperfection are evidence of that journey, not departures from it. We hand select every specimen for quality and character, but nature had a few million years of input before we did.

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