Detecting graveyards of 75 whales in the desert

Scientists were extremely confused in explaining the cause of 75 whales in a desert about 1km from the sea.

>>>Image: Ancient whale cemetery

This whale cemetery is considered one of the best preserved prehistoric whale cemeteries ever with 20 completely intact remains. The cemetery contains 75 remains of whales that live on Earth 2 million years ago discovered in June 2010 in a highway project.

A set of prehistoric whale remains found in the desert in Chile

Most are fossil whale fossils about 8m long. There are also remains of an extinct dolphin that was discovered in Peru before.

However, what made the scientists most confused when they discovered this graveyard was making nearly 100 prehistoric whales, and expected to discover even more, most of them. The size of a bus, died at the corner of the Atacama Desert in Chile.

According to the researchers' guess, it is possible that these whales have gathered in a bay of water and earthquakes have made this bay isolated from the ocean, dried up over time and made whales Ancient trapped to death; or maybe because of a big storm brought the whales to shore and left it.

Now researchers are looking for more evidence to confirm their hypotheses.