Fossil Mystery in Desert

In Santiago Chile, More than 2 million years ago, scores of whales congregating off the Pacific Coast of South America mysteriously met their end.  Maybe they were trapped in a lagoon by a landslide or a storm. Maybe they died there over a period of a few millennia. But somehow, they ended up right next to one another, many just yards apart.

Today, they have emerged again atop a desert hill more than a half a mile from the surf, where researchers have begun to unearth one of the world's best-preserved graveyards of prehistoric whales.

I think that is pretty cool. Any comments??

 

Take a look at the pictures:)  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45367885/ns/technology_and_science-science/#.Tslf8LLq9nA

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