Wadi Al Hittan
Wadi Al Hittan, EGplace
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This Unesco World Heritage Site is home to the earliest prehistoric whale fossils ever discovered. The more than 400 basilosaurus and dorodontus (both rather fierce water predators) skeletons found here are around 40 million years old and show the clear evolution of land-based mammals into sea-going ones, as they have vestigial front and back legs.The sands are also studded with the remains of manatees and big bony fish – which look very out of place in the vast desert.
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Station: 289n300e · 21.3 km away · 224m
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