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Egyptian researcher at Mansoura University Abdullah Gohar, shows the fossil of a 43 million-year-old four-legged prehistoric whale known as the “Phiomicetus Anubis,” in an evolution of whales from land to sea, which was unearthed over a decade ago in Fayoum in the Western Desert of Egypt, at the university’s paleontology department lab, in the Nile Delta city of Mansoura, 110 kilometers (70 miles) north of Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, Sept. 12, 2021. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty)

Egypt team identifies fossil of land-roaming whale species

The fossil was first found by a team of Egyptian environmentalists in 2008 in an area that was covered by seas in prehistoric times, but researchers only published their findings confirming a new...