11-20-2011Whales in the desert: Fossil bonanza poses mystery

Whales in the desert: Fossil bonanza poses mystery

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 became disoriented and beached themselves. 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 meters (yards) apart, entombed as the shallow sea floor was driven upward by geological forces and transformed into the driest place on the planet.

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

Chilean scientists together with researchers from the Smithsonian Institution are studying how these whales, many of the them the size of buses, wound up in the same corner of the Atacama Desert.

Took less than 30 seconds to realize these whales were flung down from the Yucatan when the Asteroid hit.

The account said they were well-preserved .. not blasted bits of whales

Took less than 30 seconds to realize these whales were beached when the flood of Noah's day hit.

LOL.. I'd still like to see some more "proof" for Noah's Ark and the Great Flood.. that would be interesting.

Maybe it was just a special lagoon full of mermaids that was a secret paradise for whales, and then it suddenly closed off and dried up!

There is no tell tale signs that it was ocean floor in the area.

The water was displaced with the impact.

Think of it like scooping up a pail and flinging it. Haven't you ever done that as a kid.

The water and whatever you had in flies out and lands together.

Every single civilization has a common myth - no matter where they are on this planet - of a great flood.

So if you believe in a single starting point for humans, they experienced massive flooding together and carried tales of it everywhere they migrated



that .. or it actually happened


(migratious)

Yes, in a big splat, And the Carcases would not be intact after being flung HUNDREDS of miles