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How the Andes Mountains Might Have Killed a Bunch of Whales

S4 · E14 · 29 Apr 2020 · 10 min

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At a site known as Cerro Ballena or Whale Hill, there are more than 40 skeletons of marine mammals -- a graveyard of ocean life dating back 6.5 million to 9 million years ago, in the Late Miocene Epoch. But the identity of the killer that they finally settled on might surprise you.