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Description
Whale Killer
Pakistan & Egypt
36 million years ago

Animals:
-Basilosaurus
-Dorudon
-Andrewsarchus
-Embolotherium
-Apidium
-Moeritherium
-Arsinoitherium

When the dinosaurs disappeared, so too did the giant marine reptiles that once terrorized the oceans. For almost 20 million years, there was nothing around to eat the sharks. But now they are back to being small fry with the emergence of a new line of hunters: the first true whales. There are smaller species like Dorudon, but they are at the mercy of their larger, more voracious cousin, Basilosaurus. Whales are now the masters of the sea.

Meanwhile, on land, mammals have shrugged off their small beginnings to evolve into the largest and fiercest animals on the planet. Around the mangrove swamps, you'll find the monkey Apidium and two elephant relatives; the aquatic Moeritherium and the horned Arsinoitherium. Further inland, there is the large Embolotherium, and a giant hoofed carnivore, Andrewsarchus.

However, the Eocene world is changing, temperatures are dropping, Antarctica is freezing, and the continent of Africa is moving north towards Europe and Asia. As a result, the ancient sea over Africa will become the Sahara Desert and about 25% of all life on Earth will die out. Whales will survive, but the primitive species like Basilosaurus will not be among them...

Description
Whale Killer
Pakistan & Egypt
36 million years ago

Animals:
-Basilosaurus
-Dorudon
-Andrewsarchus
-Embolotherium
-Apidium
-Moeritherium
-Arsinoitherium

When the dinosaurs disappeared, so too did the giant marine reptiles that once terrorized the oceans. For almost 20 million years, there was nothing around to eat the sharks. But now they are back to being small fry with the emergence of a new line of hunters: the first true whales. There are smaller species like Dorudon, but they are at the mercy of their larger, more voracious cousin, Basilosaurus. Whales are now the masters of the sea.

Meanwhile, on land, mammals have shrugged off their small beginnings to evolve into the largest and fiercest animals on the planet. Around the mangrove swamps, you'll find the monkey Apidium and two elephant relatives; the aquatic Moeritherium and the horned Arsinoitherium. Further inland, there is the large Embolotherium, and a giant hoofed carnivore, Andrewsarchus.

However, the Eocene world is changing, temperatures are dropping, Antarctica is freezing, and the continent of Africa is moving north towards Europe and Asia. As a result, the ancient sea over Africa will become the Sahara Desert and about 25% of all life on Earth will die out. Whales will survive, but the primitive species like Basilosaurus will not be among them...