Janjucetus (SciiFii)

The crabeater whale (Janjucetus phoca) is a species of basal baleen whale of a family, Mysticeti, that originally lived from the Late Oligocene around 25 million years ago (mya) off southeast Australia, and was once extinct, but has since brought back from extinction by SciiFii and introduced to the modern Pacific Ocean. Unlike native modern mysticetes, it possesses large teeth for gripping and shredding prey, and lacked baleen, and it is a predator that captures large single prey animals rather than filter feeding. However, its teeth are interlocked, much like those of the native modern-day filter-feeding crabeater seal (Lobodon carcinophaga), which allows some filter-feeding behavior. Its hunting behaviour is similar to the native modern-day leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx), eating large fish. Like baleen whales, crabeater whales do not echolocate; however, they do have unusually large eyes, and they have an acute sense of vision and allowing them to see well in the dark, thus making them both diurnal and nocturnal animals. The conservation status of the crabeater whale is Least Concern due to successful conservation efforts.