A Walking Whale from 10 Million Years Ago | BBC Studios 

49 MILLION YEARS AGO Not 10 million. How has this not been corrected in 13 years?

How do they make the animation look very realistic? Even the water ripples, so as the whole environment, looks real! How?

While Ambulocetus did eat mammals on occasion, it usually ate fish. That actually makes it more crocodile-like because crocodiles feed mostly on fish.

They have some nice background music.

Awesome to think how much they've evolved; 100% aquatic, sonar, primitive signs of culture/companionship... Whales are fucking rad.

Propalotherium is so freaking cute

When whales -had legs- ate horses.

@NOOP1999 I think that evolution is an ongoing process, and we're evolving all the time - but so slowly that we don't even notice.

Ambulocetus... creature hated by creationists.

It looks like a cross between a otter,dog and crocodile

Seems more like an otter than a whale

The primitive whale emerged from the water too far from the Propalotherium and so he missed. If he'd gotten a bit closer before launching his ambush, he'd have gotten a meal.

some of the best CG i've seen

the ancestors of dolphins used to have legs but evolved to lose them. it was _defeeting the porpoise_

shoutout to the cameraman doing the most living millions of years to document this for us

@EoceneRoxton True, but there is one type of squid, Lolliguncula brevis, that can tolerate low salinity and often inhabits river mouths. It is possible that squids (or octopi or cuttlefish) could evolve to tolerate freshwater environments over time, and even if they didn't, a potential land cephalopod would still be able to colonise coastal habitats.

That's really cool. They are both ungulates.

if whales could walk, that would make an amazing steed, I can see it now

They do but you have to buy the DVD at stores etc. Watching this on large Plasma with blueray and surround sound is very cool

Awesome documentary

is there ANY video at all that doesnt have any arguments about creation vs. evolution?seriously guys lighten up its just a show

Pretty sure ambulocetus existed LOOONG before that!

Is this music available on the audio discs? .... if so what is this soundtrack called?

It's 50 million, not 10 come on

Even the video's resolution is from paleocene ;)

@SnokeZ pidgeons are velociraptors so watch out!

Whales had legs!

this is so helpful im doing a project on whale evolution and how mammals went back into the sea to become whales thanks

@SnokeZ It'll be a lot longer than that before the Sapient LandSquids find our fossils, and say: "DAMN NATURE, YOU SCARY!".

Walking with beasts my childhooood!

@SilverThunder Certainly no offense intended, but anyone who believes that any part of evolution happened/happens in leaps and bounds has no understanding of the evolutionary process....but thanks for your comment..... :)

Ooh, beautiful CGI.

Ambulocetus is Actually a Water Dweller

As far as Digital Animation goes. I think this is good.

Nice but if i remebr correctly ambelocetus already kived morw in costal water than fresh water rivers and lakes

49 MILLION YEARS AGO LATER

CGI has its uses. My kids love these shows and I don’t mind watching either. Beats the heck out of Blippi

Is it supposed to replaced of ambelucetus instead of diplocynodon for Messel pit in Germany and other ancient crocodiles in the German Eocene in it.

@atchisrj1 there's a misunderstanding. I did not say that line was fundamentalism. I actually supported that line as an opinion or educated suggestion in a world where ideas should be free. The problem is that I find supporter of evolutionary theory who aggressively campaign for using evolution hypothesis to stop all other possible theories to exist in this human society extremists. And there are quite a few of them nowadays.

Can you upload whole videos?

The Ambulocetus is very cool

14 years later and the resolution is garbage but the cgi is impressive

I regret watching this. I read that it ate fish and I was like ok, maybe it's a friendly, but scary looking fish eater but no. It also ate small mammals. So if this thing was still alive, it would try to bite and or eat me. And there's probably no taming it either to be like a dog.

@Tyler31246 agreed, i believe in evolution too, it's called looking at the evidence and making decisions...

ads by Google keep brainwashing me to save on car insurance. RU-vid is slowly becoming commercially driven.

@Tyler31246 thank you for responding.

In the year : 4000 we will evoluate ? :D I mean .. I HOPE WE WONT BE ANIMATED . For any documentary you know :D Like we did with Homo Sapiens , Erectus , Habilis and the rest :D

Whales evolved in shallow Tethys sea not lakes

Ambulocetus attacked Propalaeotherium

Ambulocetus Actually Eats Fish

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no no no you're all wrong we are very very very very very lucky it's that simple lucky isn't it ?

@FrenchBulldogWinston I agree, I came here to watch prehistoric whales, not listen to religious debate.

i saw a flying pizza yesterday

@atchisrj1 where do you exactly see "offering an option is fundamentalism"?

Whale scare a horse

I would like to see the horse one. would be neat

Its look like a mammal version of a crocodile.

I love the war on this comment section

I don't get the those that refuse evolution. It seems that most of them feel that their faith is threatened do to the biases of that faith resting solely on the genesis myth. I'm an atheist but, I see no reason why the faithful can't accept evolution as the how as opposed to the why. Maybe if there is a god he/she/it could have just set it in motion and let nature do it's thing. Just a thought.

In Walking With Beasts Ambulocetus Was Walking On Land

OMG I have this in korean version!!! But to be honest, I don't think whales evolved, I mean, what christians would?

Was Ambulocetus from Pakistan and not Germany Because This Episode Is About Germany

Weird. Whales don't eat horses nowadays.

You believe matter created itself, or its eternal. haha

The mammal reminds me of a crocodile

like ambulocetus

@siryumi *grammar lolololololol

@randominitializer How is offering an option fundamentalism?

seniorcitizenful, you are a marine biologist? One of the 10 commandments is being broken, here... Maybe if you pray you will be forgiven. After all, your life is for a good cause, right?

The bible does not prohibit swearing. Hell, Damn, Ass. MG42 doesn't have to repent for that, although he will lose the attention of those he is trying to convince. Ephesians 4:29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.

@Tyler31246 same I am Christian but I believe in evolution :D

@SnokeZ dude that would suck

it reminds me of an otter, not a whale

@randominitializer You claimed that saying "Maybe if there is a god he/she/it could have just set it in motion and let nature do it's thing." was a form of fundamentalisam. I am offering a "maybe" If theists wish to prove it then in a way I guess it's a challenge. If there be a god let them prove it is hat I was getting at. How is a maybe fundamentalisam?

@SnokeZ maybe we wil look ugly in the documontary, or they see us for dinosaurs.........

@juanarruti ?

@limewolf3 Doesn't the bible say that one shalt not use technology, or something like that?

@atchisrj1 yes but the problem is with the people who support evolution use it to refute God's existence and doing so they deny without proofs your 2nd assumption of God setting up the evolution process. That's also fundamentalism. and any kind of fundamentalism would definitely make the other group uneasy.

@IndianaJ25 Thank you for responding :) I still don't understand, I'm not sure you answered any of the questions (not that you have to) I'm just trying to understand the mentality. In what way are you not just sticking a God in there, simply because you have believed in a God all of your life does not help me understand why you feel a "God helped evolution" you called it truth, how do you know it to be truth? Belief = truth? "I will continue believing" I am not trying to persuade you otherwise.

@limewolf3 yay me too :D

Open you eyes and mind,,the bible is just a book written by many people from diferent land, and because of politic it got tranform what is today,,,try googling First Council of Nicaea.

@IndianaJ25 What makes it the truth? Simply because we do not YET know for sure how life began does I suppose mean one can toss a God into that gap of knowledge, but I have no idea what good it does. Why do you prefer to do so? I'm not attacking you, I am honestly curious. It's not an explanation, if anything it makes a complicated question even more complicated does it not?

There's a sea iguana !

Rabbish true....

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Anyone know what this clip is from?

Naw, you don't let nature do it's thing. I believe they were created via evolution under the guidance of an intelligent being. Though I don't believe we evolved. Things happened in too many leaps and bounds for the theory of evolution to not have someone guiding it. See, I think it's funny you say that actually, because I don't understand how it can be refused that someone was guiding this. P.S. I hate debating my beliefs, respond if you want but I'm done and not threatened by evolution. : )

@MG42pillbox by matter, you mean god?

guys stop with the religion comments

Correction: Ambulocetus can't go on land.

@Tyler31246 Even though I am an Atheist I totally agree with you, creationists/preachers do aid in making religion look bad. I wish all christians were like you my friend :) Sadly I don't personally know a single one like you, I simply know they exist. I'm curious, if I may, what makes you call yourself a christian? Is it more of a Deistic view, IE you simply believe in a God, or do you believe in the story of Jesus, resurrection etc? Just asking cause I have never talked to someone like you.

@SnokeZ Evoluate?

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@Arcazazel "insert religion comment here"

I think your claim to being a marine biologist is a hoax.

Nice ambush ...lol

@Tyler31246 Uhm... I just read the second sentence I wrote in my last comment and wanted to rephrase that... I ment to say "I'm pretty sure technology is against the bible." But can you be christian if you don't follow the bible?

@ANTIDARWINISMO HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA unbelievable. Are you real?

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense". - Siddarth Gautama, 'The Buddha'