Ambulocetus means " Walking whale" is a bizarre prehistoric cetacean that lives in Pakistan, Asia during Eocene period. It's the reason how whales can swim underwater since this otter like crocodile creatures adapt in water. Because of it's legs, the ambulocetus swim like an otter and used it for lunging prey above the water since it's a carnivore. Ambulocetus is a very important transitional fossil as it displays the link between terrestrial mammals and the early whales. Ambulocetus acquired its name from the idea that it could both swim by undulating its back as well as leave the water and walk on land. However a 2016 study by Ando & Fujiwara suggests that Ambulocetus was more aquatic than terrestrial, perhaps even exclusively aquatic.
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