Tourists visit Wadi Al-Hitan, or the Whale Valley, in Fayoum, Egypt, on December 26, 2024. Wadi Al-Hitan, or the Whale Valley, located in the desert of Fayoum, features invaluable fossil remains of the earliest, and now extinct, suborder of whales, Archaeoceti. It was designated a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Site in 2005. (Photo by Xinhua News Agency/Rex Features/Shutterstock)
