A Walking Whale: Ambulocetus - American Museum of Natural History
2013年3月6日 · Paleontologists have found fossil evidence of various “walking whales,” semiaquatic whales that show some early stages of the transition from land-dwelling ancestors to today’s familiar fully marine whales. One such “walking whale” is Ambulocetus (am-bew-lo-SEAT-us) natans, which lived about 49 million years ago in what is now ...
Ambulocetus - Wikipedia
Ambulocetus (Latin ambulare "to walk" + cetus "whale") is a genus of early amphibious cetacean [a] from the Kuldana Formation in Pakistan, roughly 48 or 47 million years ago during the Early Eocene . It contains one species, Ambulocetus natans (Latin natans "swimming"), known solely from a near-complete skeleton.
Cracking the case of the walking whale: an evolutionary whodunit
2024年1月11日 · How did whales evolve from four-legged land mammals into ocean giants? This documentary explores the fossil evidence and genetic clues that reveal the evolutionary journey of the walking...
Egypt's Wadi Hitan: the mysterious valley of the whales
2024年1月15日 · The story of this extraordinary place and its ghosts are featured in The Mystery of the Walking Whale, a new documentary from The Nature of Things. Wadi Hitan is the largest graveyard of...
Scientists Discover Fossil Of A Whale With Four Legs : NPR
2021年8月27日 · A team led by Egyptian scientists have dug up a 43 million-year-old fossil in the Sahara Desert in Egypt of a now-extinct amphibious four-legged whale. That's right, folks — a whale with legs.
Walking Whales and The Rise of the Cetaceans - Brian N. Tissot
2020年2月1日 · If you could travel through time and swim in the warm Tethys Sea of 50 mya you’d by startled by the early ancestors of whales — the walking whales. Whales and their relatives, the cetaceans, are related to terrestrial (even-toed) ungulates like the hippopotamus.
Weird fossil of the week: Ambulocetus - Earth Archives
Ambulocetus, or the “walking whale,” was a strange-looking 10-foot-long cetacean from the Eocene Epoch some 45 million years ago that could both walk on land and swim proficiently. Ambulocetus is a transitional form, or what some people call a “missing link.”
In Search of Walking Whales | Ideastream Public Media
2014年8月5日 · A skeleton of Ambulocetus, the walking whale, hangs in the atrium of the medical school just outside Thewissen’s lab. Thewissen says what for centuries had been a great scientific mystery, has in the past 15 to 20 years become one of the best examples of evolution.
When Whales Walked: Journeys in Deep Time | Walking Whale Ancestor …
2019年6月11日 · Blue whales are the biggest creatures to have ever lived on Earth. Measuring up to a hundred feet long and 200 tons in weight, they have a heart the size of a small car. But how did they get so...
Ambulocetus Natans | College of Osteopathic Medicine - New …
Learn about Ambulocetus, a 48-million-year-old whale that could walk on land and swim like an otter. Find out its anatomy, locomotion, sensory abilities, and diet based on fossil evidence.