Wadi Al-Hitan, Whale Valley, in the Western Desert of Egypt, contains invaluable fossil remains of the earliest, and now extinct, suborder of whales, Archaeoceti. These fossils represent one of the ...

Wadi Al-Hitan, Egypt. Posted: March 31, 2025 | Last updated: March 31, 2025 Did you know that there are massive whale skeletons under the sand in the Egyptian Sahara desert?

On a private trip with Original Travel, I visited Cairo and Alexandria before heading into the desert in a 4x4 with a local ...

But little in the fossil record illustrated the transition—until Gingerich began excavating Wadi Hitan’s hundreds of whale fossils, finding legs and knees. Those skeletons “are the Rosetta ...

Our planet holds corners so strange, so breathtakingly unlikely, they feel like fragments of a dream. These UNESCO World ...

Then came Wadi al-Hitan, where the fossilised skeletons of ancient whales (creatures whose limbs were still more leg-like than fin-like) lie half-covered in the sand – a sight as "astonishing ...