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Whalevolution Month #04 – Ambulocetus The “walking whale” Ambulocetus is known from Pakistan about 50-48 million years ago. Around 3m long (10′10″), it was a more amphibious creature than the pakicetids, with its hind limbs better adapted for swimming. While its eyes were high on its skull like Pakicetus, they faced more to the sides than upwards.
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Elomeryx, top, was a land animal related to modern-day goats, pigs and hippos. Pakicetus was clearly a water creature, but it spent some of its life on land and had the feet of a land mammal. Rodhocetuss feet worked for both walking and swimming. Dorudon is striking for its resemblance to modern whales (note the front flippers and horizontal flukes)—but it still sported tiny back feet.
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