{"id":597674,"date":"2023-08-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2023\/08\/13\/egyptian-researchers-discover-ancient-mini-whale-in-wadi-al-hitan\/"},"modified":"2023-08-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T00:00:00","slug":"egyptian-researchers-discover-ancient-mini-whale-in-wadi-al-hitan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2023\/08\/13\/egyptian-researchers-discover-ancient-mini-whale-in-wadi-al-hitan\/","title":{"rendered":"Egyptian researchers discover ancient mini whale in Wadi Al Hitan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong> A fresh prehistoric discovery in Fayoum is dominating the conversation on Egypt <\/strong><strong> internationally this morning: <\/strong> The fossil of a miniature whale only 2.5 meters long has been unearthed by Egyptian paleontologists in Wadi Al Hitan. The fossil is \u201cnot something we usually see from that time period,\u201d said professor Hashem Sallam, founder of the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/muvp.mans.edu.eg\/index.php\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Mansoura University Vertebrate Palaeontology Center<\/a>, referring to the Eocene period that lasted from about 55.8 mn to 33.9 mn years ago. The whale has been named Tutcetus rayanensis after the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun. Read the researchers\u2019 study in the open-access journal Communications Biology <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s42003-023-04986-w\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timesofisrael.com\/egypt-dig-unearths-41-million-year-old-whale-in-desert\/\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">AFP<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2023\/aug\/10\/fossil-of-41m-year-old-miniature-whale-discovered-in-egypt\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">The Guardian<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/egypt-tiny-whale-fossil-41-million-years-old-discovered\/\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">CBS News<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/scientists-discover-new-species-miniature-ancient-whale-lived\/story?id=102130770\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">ABC News<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thenationalnews.com\/mena\/egypt\/2023\/08\/10\/scientists-discover-ancient-egyptian-miniature-whale\/\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">The National<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/egyptian-paleontologists-bottlenose-dolphin-mansoura-university-41-whale-king-tut-2023-8\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Business Insider<\/a> | <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/egypt-ct-scans-university-of-michigan-greek-b2390969.html\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">The Independent<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong> Also making headlines: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong> Egypt stays neutral in Russia-Ukraine war: <\/strong>Egypt is resisting requests from senior US leaders to send weapons to Ukraine, the Wall Street Journal reports, citing Egyptian and American officials. (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/egypt-resists-u-s-calls-to-arm-ukraine-5ac5d509\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">WSJ<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li><strong> The Rosetta Stone returns \u2013 sort of: <\/strong> The Rosetta Stone is being \u201cdigitally repatriated\u201d to Fort Qaitbay in Rashid\u2014 the believed site of its discovery \u2014 by anti-looting arts collective <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.looty.art\/\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Looty<\/a>. Visitors will be able to see an augmented reality installation of the stone via a QR code. The stone was captured by the British in 1801 and has been displayed at the British Museum ever since. (<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/08\/11\/arts\/looty-rosetta-stone-benin-bronzes.html\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">New York Times<\/a>)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The whale is thought to have lived 41 mn years ago<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":597675,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7233],"tags":[687,504,6552,72,127,1095],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-597674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-egypt-in-the-news","tag-ancient-egypt","tag-archaeology","tag-egypt-us-relations","tag-enterpriseam","tag-politics","tag-russia-ukraine-war","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"f5668878-a801-4984-b639-9913454755d3","is_powered_by":false,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"https:\/\/ent.news\/2023\/8\/558.jpg","photo_position":"above","homepage_title":"","full_issue_title":"Egyptian researchers discover ancient mini whale in Wadi Al Hitan","related_issue":[597653],"teaser":"The whale is thought to have lived 41 mn years ago","voice_url":"https:\/\/s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/ent.news\/audio\/2023\/8\/.2ca637c3-7315-47cf-b7de-9ea55af47b5a.mp3"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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