#42: Ancient Whale Graveyard
Is there anything cooler than finding bones and fossils from thousands of years ago? We, humans, live such different lives today than the lives we used to live, but the same isn’t necessarily true for wild animals and sea creatures. Sure, there are some obvious differences, but they pretty much spend their day-to-day lives very similarly as they did thousands of years ago.
Researchers were baffled when a giant graveyard of whales was discovered in the Atacama desert in 2011. There are many confusing things about finding bones of whales in the middle of the desert, but the main thing that puzzled researchers was the time periods… And as it turned out, the fossils were from completely different time periods. The researchers concluded that the deaths of the whales were likely caused by harmful algae…