EARTHQUAKES HAVE BEEN CAUSING WHALE STRANDINGS FOR 32 MILLION YEARS
Researchers say a fossilized whale skull pulled from sandy muck outside Charleston, S.C. indicates that biosonar was being used over 32 million years ago. It also indicates that toothed whales were stranding in the sand over 32 million years ago. These same researchers inform that ancient toothed whales had air sinuses in their heads that enabled their biosonar system. This means that undersea earthquakes have been causing toothed whales to strand in the sand for at least 32 million years. _________________________________________________ The Christian Science Monitor Pete Spotts / March 12, 2014, Sperm whales do it. Dolphins do it. Orcas do it. And now, researchers have unveiled the fossilized skull of a 28-million-year-old marine mammal that did it too – used sound to find its next meal or swim safely through turbid waters. After comparing the nearly complete skull with those of other fossil cetaceans, the team placed C. macei on the evolutionary ...