Eons: How the Andes Mountains Might Have Killed a Bunch of Whales

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Cerro Ballena is located along the Pan-American Highway ,just north of the town of Caldera, in Chile's Atacama Desert. It is the first definitive example of repeated mass strandings of marine mammals in the fossil record. This episode explores four possible hypotheses surrounding this location. Part of the "Eons" series.