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Find Along Chilean Highway Suggests Ancient Mass Stranding of Whales
sciencehabit writes "In 2010, workers widening a remote stretch of highway near the northwestern coast of Chile uncovered a trove of fossils, including the skeletons of at least 30 large baleen whales. The fossils—which may be up to 9 million years old—are the first definitive examples of ancient mass strandings of whales, according to a new study. The work also fingers a possible culprit."
"The work also fingers a possible culprit"
Anthropomorphic Global Warming?
(not a troll, just a funny, vote me down if you will)
"National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
It is having repercussions across the entire timeline.
You're welcome.
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Ernest Hemingway
It had to be the damn Navy testing advanced sonar!
Activists! Run forth and protest!
_ _ _ Go for the eyes Boo! GO FOR THE EYES!
There was no large scale industry or agriculture using vast quantities or fertilizer in Chile 10-15 thousand years ago, so there couldn't have been algae blooms. Algae blooms are the exclusive fault of white anglo capitalists and those hadn't been invented yet.
Greenpiece? Who are they?
Whales fell for the ol' "Free all-you-can-eat buffet" sign.
George Lucas's fault. He thought he could do something with whales and time travel in the Star Wars franchise, and this is the result.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
They probably are all roadkill. They are all laying next to the road! Pretty obvious.
Santiago is the capital of Chile. I can remember this because Santiago always ate a lot of chili.
Even during the most in-climate of weather.
Priest: "Universe from nothing, no laws of physics, sped up time"+ huge discrepancies. Creationism? No. Big Bang Theory
Hippie chicks who put out.
The article says:
"Second, most of the baleen whale skeletons had been preserved “belly-up”—a position that suggests the creatures died at sea, rolled upside down as they decomposed, and then remained inverted when high tides or storm surges deposited them on shore. That ultimate resting position is typical of modern baleen whales that die at sea, Goldbogen says.
Finally, ripples preserved in the rocks indicate that the carcasses ended up lying crosswise to currents that had cast them onto the beach—just as in modern mass strandings, Pyenson says."
We've been told that modern 'strandings' are the cause of death (witness all the efforts to return the creatures to deeper waters), not the result.
Yeah but if it's green you'd better wear a condom.
If there's grass on the field, play ball.
Today the world is full of pedophiles who not only won't the grass mowed but shorn as well.
Why? Captain Kirk never did, even when he was doing the green chicks in the Shatner.
Birds are not dinosaur descendants;birds are dinosaurs, for all useful meanings of "birds", "are" and "dinosaurs"
Here's the relevant video.
The article mentions an "aquatic sloth"
AQUATIC SLOTH!
It was obviously caused by one of our submarines going back in time and using sonar to confuse the whales into grounding themselves
_That_ I'd like to have seen...
01/01/01
Being able to swap radio modules could be fantastic if it reduces the friction involved in switching carriers.
9 million year old whale corpses?
maybe you commented on the wrong article Jim