🔥 The world's only intact fossil of an early whale – the Basilosaurus dating about 40 million years ago – has been uncovered during a excavation at Wadi Al-Hitan in Egypt.
Fun fact, there are tons of tiny whale teeth scattered across that valley.
They look kind of like sharks’ teeth and you can’t avoid stepping on them because most are so small that you can’t see them unless you’re sitting down. The hardest to see are probably from the smaller of the two whales common in the valley, the Dorudon.
Nearby is also a great camping spot with amazing sun rises. And at night the sky is so clear you’ll be able to see over a dozen satellites and several shooting stars without any difficulty.
RedditNoises on January 23rd, 2021 at 16:24 UTC »
Remains of sea creatures inside the whale, precisely where the stomach would have been, were also discovered. These include crab, sawfish – and a small whale that was preyed by the Basilosaurus.
Cool shit! Interesting read too.
Shak_2000 on January 23rd, 2021 at 17:28 UTC »
Fun fact "wadi Al-Hitan" also translates to "valley of whales" from Arabic.
digiorno on January 23rd, 2021 at 18:17 UTC »
Fun fact, there are tons of tiny whale teeth scattered across that valley.
They look kind of like sharks’ teeth and you can’t avoid stepping on them because most are so small that you can’t see them unless you’re sitting down. The hardest to see are probably from the smaller of the two whales common in the valley, the Dorudon.
Nearby is also a great camping spot with amazing sun rises. And at night the sky is so clear you’ll be able to see over a dozen satellites and several shooting stars without any difficulty.