A rare whale tooth unearthed at a Copper Age “mega village” in Spain has shed light on the artistry of Iberian people who ...

Did you know whales evolved from a land-based animal into an ocean-going mammal? To explore the evidence, we need to look at ...

A photo circulating on social media for years authentically showed a 37-million-year-old fossilized whale skeleton discovered in Egypt. Rating: True (About this rating?) On Jan. 5, 2025, a Reddit ...

On Jan. 5, 2025, a Reddit user posted (archived) a photo to the r/BeAmazed subreddit that showed what appeared to be a giant vertebral column in a desert. The post included a caption reading, "A ...

This photo taken on Aug. 12, 2024 shows whale fossil remains at the Wadi Al-Hitan in Fayoum, Egypt. Wadi Al-Hitan, or Whale Valley, located in the desert of Fayoum, contains invaluable fossil ...

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 ...

Egypt. The “rayan” part of the name derives from the Wadi El-Rayan Protected Area, which sits about 25 miles northeast of a site so rich in fossil whales that it has been called Wadi Al-Hitan ...

A fossil from about 40 million years ago found in Egypt may shed light on how whales acclimated to living fully under water, according to a peer-reviewed study published in Communications Biology ...

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 ...

(CNN) — 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.

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.