QUESTION CAN SOMEBODY TELL ME IF THIS IS CORRECT? The fossil consists of a complete skull of an archaeocyte, an extinct group of ancestors of modern cetaceans. Although limited to a skull, the Pakicetus fossil provides precious details on the origins of cetaceans. The skull is cetacean-like but its jawbones lack the enlarged space that is filled with fat or oil and used for receiving underwater sound in modern whales. Pakicetus probably detected sound through the ear opening as in land mammals. The skull also lacks a blowhole, another cetacean adaptation for diving. Other features, however, show experts that Pakicetus is a transitional form between a group of extinct flesh-eating mammals, the mesonychids, and cetaceans. It has been suggested that Pakicetus fed on fish in shallow water and was not yet adapted for life in the open ocean. It probably bred and gave birth on land. 3. The word precious in the passage is closest in meaning to (mark with X): exact scarce (X)valuable initial 4. Pakicetus and modern cetaceans have similar hearing structures adaptations for diving (X)skull shapes breeding locations 5. The word It in the passage refers to (X) Pakicetus fish life ocean WORDS that I am not sure about the meaning in Spanish: Whales=ballena?