These Construction Workers Hit Something Hard While Digging What They Found Was Amazing

These Construction Workers Hit Something Hard While Digging What They Found Was Amazing



These Construction Workers Hit Something Hard While Digging. What They Found Was Amazing.

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Recently researchers came across an ancient whale graveyard which was unearthed by the Pan-American Highway Project. The trove of bones was first discovered by construction workers. It was then immediately turned over to scientists who unearthed the skeletons of more than 40 marine mammals including two seals, an aquatic sloth, and an extinct species of sperm whale. The mass strandings that are thought to have killed them span a period more than 10,000 years. Chilean and Smithsonian paleontologists study several fossilized whale skeletons at Cerro Ballena, also known as “Whale Hill,” next to the Pan-American Highway in the Atacama region of Chile.