Wadi Hitan is a beautiful but unforgiving place. Along with the bones of prehistoric sea monsters, Gingerich has found the remains of unlucky humans. He moved down the spine toward the tail ...

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?

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 ...

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 ...

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