https://freerepublic.com/tag/sandwhale/ en-us Wed, 20 Apr 2005 17:09:49 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1387486/posts CAIRO (Reuters) - An American palaeontologist and a team of Egyptians have found the most nearly complete fossilised skeleton of the primitive whale Basilosaurus isis in Egypt's Western Desert, a university spokesman said on Monday. Philip Gingerich of the University of Michigan excavated the well-preserved skeleton, which is about 40 million years old, in a desert valley known as Wadi Hitan (the Valley of the Whales) southwest of Cairo, spokesman Karl Bates told Reuters. "His feeling is that it's the most complete -- the whole skeleton from stem to stern," said Bates. The skeleton, which is 18 metres (50 feet)... Reuters Wire https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1387486/posts#comment Wed, 20 Apr 2005 17:09:49 GMT