(November 21, 2011 at 5:50 pm)aleialoura Wrote: This is awesome!! They've unearthed over 75 intact prehistoric whales, and more in the Atacama Desert.
Quote:Along with the whale fossils, the researchers have also discovered the skeletal remains of an extinct aquatic sloth, a seabird with a 17-foot wingspan, a sperm whale and a now-extinct dolphin with two walrus-like tusks. "We're very excited about that," Pyenson said in a telephone interview with the AP. "It is a very bizarre animal."
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/wha...35450.html
When those whales died, what is now desert was the coast or near to it.That makes sense in that part of the world which is subject to a lot of tectonic uplift, also not to mention that the fossils now are just half a kilometer from the ocean.
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