Aliza Chasan is a Digital Content Producer for "60 Minutes" and CBSNews.com. She has previously written for outlets including PIX11 News, The New York Daily News, Inside Edition and DNAinfo.

Scientists have discovered a 41-million-year-old fossil that may be the smallest whale species ever to swim the Earth's oceans. Discovered in Egypt, the previously unknown species is the tiniest ...

Did you know whales evolved from a land-based animal into an ocean-going mammal? To explore the evidence, we need to look at the desert, which may seem strange when discussing whales. The ocean once ...

On the tail of the discovery of a whale fossil that is the largest animal on record, researchers in Egypt announced the unearthing of one of the smallest early whales known to science.

Some 41 million years ago, Egypt's desert was covered by an ancient sea and was once home to the now-extinct whale species, Tutcetus rayanensis. "The Eocene fossil sites of Egypt's Western Desert have ...

The specimen first identified as a new species was discovered in the Sath El-Hadid Formation of the Fayum Depression near Cairo, Egypt, one of the world’s richest whale fossil sites. Notably, ...

For years, social media users on Reddit, X, Facebook and other social media sites have shared a photo they claim authentically shows a 37-million-year-old whale skeleton found at Wadi Al-Hitan in ...