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- Largest Whale Skeleton Found At Siwa Oasis
Al Masry Al Youm With photos. It looks as though these remains date to the same period (and were therefore probably part of the same coastline) as the Faiyum remains of whale, shark and mangrove in the Wadi el-Hitan (Valley of Whales). The Environment...
- Finds From Whale Valley
Al Ahram Weekly (Mahmoud Bakr) An Egyptian team has discovered a large number of prehistoric whale remains just north of Lake Qaroun in Fayoum south of Cairo. One of the whale skeletons is smaller than a basilosaurus, but bigger than a dorudon atrox,...
- Feature: Journeying To See Prehistoric Whales In The Faiyum
Heritage Key (Garry Shaw) With slideshow. If you're into long accounts of travel in four-wheel-drives then you'll find a lot to appeal to you in this article, which is mostly about whether or not the Wadi el Hitan (Valley of the Whales) is an...
- Damage To Whale Fossils
Yahoo European diplomats in four-wheel drive cars have caused millions of dollars worth of damage to a fossilised whale lying for millions of years in the Egyptian desert, a security source said on Sunday. "Whale Valley officials have informed the authorities...
- Palaeontology: The Whales Of Wadi El Hitan
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/839/tr3.htm"Forty million years ago a vast area of the northern part of the Egyptian Western Desert was nothing but a sea. The whole of Fayoum was submerged; it was part of the Tethys Sea. In reality, Tethys Sea was so...
Egypt
Whale fossil stuck in Egypt customs wrangle
BBC News
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Its name in Arabic is Wadi Hitan but it is known as the Valley of the Whales.
For years archaeologists have been unearthing a remarkable collection of whale fossils, all the more surprising because the area is now inland desert in upper Egypt.
It is believed that about 40 million years ago the area was submerged in water, part of the Tethys Sea. As the sea retreated north to the Mediterranean it left a series of unique rock formations and also a cornucopia of fossils.
One of the most exceptional finds was a 37 million-year-old whale from the species Basilosaurus Isis, unearthed by a team led by Prof Philip Gingerich of the University of Michigan in the United States.
But now it has become the subject of a bizarre customs wrangle at Cairo airport.
- Largest Whale Skeleton Found At Siwa Oasis
Al Masry Al Youm With photos. It looks as though these remains date to the same period (and were therefore probably part of the same coastline) as the Faiyum remains of whale, shark and mangrove in the Wadi el-Hitan (Valley of Whales). The Environment...
- Finds From Whale Valley
Al Ahram Weekly (Mahmoud Bakr) An Egyptian team has discovered a large number of prehistoric whale remains just north of Lake Qaroun in Fayoum south of Cairo. One of the whale skeletons is smaller than a basilosaurus, but bigger than a dorudon atrox,...
- Feature: Journeying To See Prehistoric Whales In The Faiyum
Heritage Key (Garry Shaw) With slideshow. If you're into long accounts of travel in four-wheel-drives then you'll find a lot to appeal to you in this article, which is mostly about whether or not the Wadi el Hitan (Valley of the Whales) is an...
- Damage To Whale Fossils
Yahoo European diplomats in four-wheel drive cars have caused millions of dollars worth of damage to a fossilised whale lying for millions of years in the Egyptian desert, a security source said on Sunday. "Whale Valley officials have informed the authorities...
- Palaeontology: The Whales Of Wadi El Hitan
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/839/tr3.htm"Forty million years ago a vast area of the northern part of the Egyptian Western Desert was nothing but a sea. The whole of Fayoum was submerged; it was part of the Tethys Sea. In reality, Tethys Sea was so...