Wadi El Hitan: The World’s Greatest Open-Air Museum of Whale Fossils
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BY web_badrysaharacamp
- November 2, 2025 8:21 am
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Wadi El Hitan, or the Valley of the Whales, is a breathtaking UNESCO World Heritage Site in Egypt’s Faiyum Desert, world-famous for its 40-million-year-old whale fossils. Known as the cradle of whale evolution, this desert valley reveals the incredible transformation of ancient whales (archaeoceti) from land mammals into ocean dwellers—complete with flippers and vestigial hind […]