The 'God of Death': Ancient Land-Hunting Whale Species Discovered.
Originally Published 2 years ago — by msnNOW
Paleontologists have discovered the 43-million-year-old fossil of a prehistoric whale in the Egyptian desert, which has been officially named Phiomicetus anubis, after the Egyptian god of the afterlife, Anubis. The Protocetid was 10 feet long and had a weight of around 1,300 pounds. Its head, which was shaped like a jackal's, would have lent to the creature's "raptorial feeding style." The discovery shows the evolution of the species "from herbivorous, deer-like, terrestrial mammals into carnivorous and fully aquatic cetaceans."