Whale Valley-Egypt’s Evolutionary Showcase

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In the valley of the whales, the fossils tell a story: one of evolution, of a species moving from land to sea over millennia. Egypt’s Wadi Al-Hitan, or Whale Valley, is among the most important archaeological sites in the world, containing invaluable fossil remains of the earliest suborder of whales, archaeoceti, at the stage in…

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