Four-Legged Egyptian Whale
Two correspondents directed me to this fossil find made in the Fayum Depression in Egypt. The beastie lived 43 million years ago and marks the transition from, as Darwin said, "something like a bear" to modern whales.
An imagined reconstruction of Phiomicetus anubis by palentologist Dr Robert Boessenecker
(Robert Boessenecker)
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