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Egypt names new species of amphibious whale after Anubis
A team of Egyptian paleontologists have named a new species of amphibious whale after its fossil was discovered by an Egyptian expedition, Professor of Paleontology at Mansoura University Hesham Sallam announced. “Paleontologists discovered the fossils in 2008 during an expedition in Egypt’s Fayoum Depression that is famous for sea life fossils dating back to the Eocene Epoch about 56 to 33.9 million years ago,” he added. Sallam’s and his fellow researches realized after four years of comparison with other whale species that they were looking at a completely new species. The species was named Phiomicetus anubis, after Anubis, the Egyptian god of death, and could likely be the oldest whale in

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