The legged whale was named after the god of death after research found the new species was adept at hunting and killing various kinds of prey. Reuters
An illustration of what the newly discovered whale which has been named after Anubis the Egyptian god of death, might have looked like.
Abdullah Gohar, a researcher at Mansoura University, Egypt, works on the 43 million-year-old fossil of a previously unknown four-legged amphibious whale. Reuters
The whale has been named Phiomicetus anubis after the ancient Egyptian god of death.
The fossil was found by Dr Salam and his team, including graduate student Abdullah Gohar. Reuters
The excavation and subsequent study are particularly significant in Egypt as they mark the first palaeontological discovery to be carried out by an all-Arab team. Reuters
Phiomicetus anubis belongs to a group of prehistoric marine animals called protocetids. Reuters
The legged whale was named after the god of death after research found the new species was adept at hunting and killing various kinds of prey. Reuters
An illustration of what the newly discovered whale which has been named after Anubis the Egyptian god of death, might have looked like.
Abdullah Gohar, a researcher at Mansoura University, Egypt, works on the 43 million-year-old fossil of a previously unknown four-legged amphibious whale. Reuters
The whale has been named Phiomicetus anubis after the ancient Egyptian god of death.
The fossil was found by Dr Salam and his team, including graduate student Abdullah Gohar. Reuters
The excavation and subsequent study are particularly significant in Egypt as they mark the first palaeontological discovery to be carried out by an all-Arab team. Reuters
Phiomicetus anubis belongs to a group of prehistoric marine animals called protocetids. Reuters
The legged whale was named after the god of death after research found the new species was adept at hunting and killing various kinds of prey. Reuters