How the Andes Mountains Might Have Killed a Bunch of Whales

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29th April 2020 10 mins Season 4 Episode 14

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.

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