When you look at the skulls of predatory cetaceans they basically look like really Metal birds

Long snoot, full o' sharp pointy teefs

Like, False Killer Whale face: (●⌒w⌒●)

False Killer Whale Skull:
\m/ {◣www◢} \m/

(images: One live, happy-looking animal in the wild, one clean illustration of a skull)

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*starts on long-winded rant about how the "cool, spiky, aggressive-lookin' " factor relates to the lack of soft bodyparts in 90% of paleoart, and the subsequent cultural depictions of dinosaurs- gets dragged offstage by a crooked staff*

..Probably for the best

(but srsly people drawing prehistoric marine mammals with NO BLUBBER at all is a riot, look some up sometime)

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