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Egyptian scientists discovered a diminutive 41-million year old whale and named it after King Tut

A bottlenose dolphin pictured in the Moray Firth, Scotland.Getty ImagesEgyptian paleontologists found a new, extinct whale species, about the size of a bottlenose dolphin.It is the smallest known whale of the extinct basilosaurids family, says the scientists' new study.The species is named "Tutcetus rayanensis," after King Tutankhamun, an ancient Egyptian Pharoah.

 

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