[Rockhounds] Chilean Fossil Finds Suggests Mass Stranding of Whales Millions of Years Ago

[Paul]

The curious case of the ancient whale bones
A trove of fossils in the Atacama Desert may hold lessons about the 
plight of modern whales.
By Byrd Pinkerton, Vox News, November 3, 2021
https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/2021/11/3/22748538/beached-whales-fossil-whale-bones-atacama-desert-algae

Find Along Chilean Highway Suggests Mass Stranding of Whales Millions of 
Years Ago
Scientists now think they have an idea of what caused the animals to 
wash up on an ancient shore
Sid Perkins, Science News, October 25, 2021
https://www.science.org/content/article/find-along-chilean-highway-suggests-mass-stranding-whales-millions-years-ago

The open access paper is:

Pyenson, N.D., Gutstein, C.S., Parham, J.F., Le Roux, J.P., Chavarría, 
C.C., Little, H., Metallo, A., Rossi,
V., Valenzuela-Toro, A.M., Velez-Juarbe, J. and Santelli, C.M., 2014. 
Repeated mass strandings of
Miocene marine mammals from Atacama Region of Chile point to sudden 
death at sea. Proceedings of
the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 281(1781), p.20133316.
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rspb.2013.3316
http://repositorio.uchile.cl/handle/2250/119857

Yours,

Paul H.