Mysterious mass whale graveyard unearthed in the Chilean desert
Scientists are baffled after finding fossil remains of 75 whales that died within yards of one another, more than a kilometer away from the sea.
ATACAMA DESERT: The whale fossils were found a kilometer from the sea in the middle of the Atacama desert. (Photo: Danielle Pereira/Flickr) Comments
Maybe it was a "Beaching" like what is so sadly common today.
U know guys I think that thousands years ago there where the desert is 2day was once the sea flour and the skeletons just sunk 2 the ground
You cannot be that damn stupid, although your spelling says otherwise.
I'm going to guess this happened during a tsunami. Whales get blown inland by the sudden rise in the water, and are then stranded when everything gets sucked back out.
does a great flood ring any bells? that would account for the rapid burial anpreservation of the whales that would have otherwise rapidly decayed after death!
Please learn the first thing about geology before you go trying to sound smart.
Except that whales would be immune to a flood, being that they already live in the sea.
I believe jb was refering to when the waters receded. The wales would then be stranded. All of the tribes in South America did have a flood myth associated with their history and religions.
Most of the planet was once covered in water, it didn't always used to look like it does today. A great flood theory doesn't explain the many fossils that are found around the world thousands of miles away from the present day coasts, providing evidence that where there is now land was once a vast sea
A similar fossli "beaching" of whales occurs in the Miocene-Pliocene sediments of the Pisco Formation in the desert of Peru, south of Lima... just off the Pan-American Highway. Called the "Graveyard of the Whales" there a numerous whole specimens preserved, many with their skeletal orientation parallel to the fossil sea coast. Some have the keratin of their baleen preserved.
I liked what ken towe had to say, just as I was looking up the information that I saw in MARK TRAIL by DODD & ELROD in the sunday comics I saw something about the "desert of peru" thing. That's what I'am going to look up next!! It's interesting to find out things like this. THE WOLFMAN said that.
