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New Species of Ancient Four-Legged Whale Discovered in Egypt

Scientists in Egypt have identified a new species of four-legged whale that lived around 43 million years ago. The fossil of the amphibious Phiomicetus anubis was originally discovered in Egypt’s Western Desert. Its skull resembles that of Anubis, the ancient Egyptian jackal-headed god of the dead after which it was named. The ancestors of modern whales developed from land-dwelling deer-like mammals that lived on land over the course of 10 million years.



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