[Fred Nerks]

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/12/photogalleries/top_ten_pictures/

Egypt may not be the first place you’d look for whales, but once upon a time the Wadi Hitan desert was underwater and teeming with the sea giants.

In April geologist Philip D. Gingerich announced his team had excavated the first known nearly complete skeleton of a Basilosaurus isis (pictured). The 50-foot-long (18-meter-long), 40-million-year-old fossil was shipped to Michigan, where experts are preserving it. Later they will return the fossil to Egypt along with a complete cast of the skeleton...

[Goonch]

"Egypt may not be the first place you’d look for whales"

Not British Columbia, huh?

Egypt's Whale Valley