It is one of the most remarkable fossil discoveries in recent years is a whale graveyard discovered in addition to the Pan American Highway in Chile .
And now scientists think they can explain how so many animals could be captured in a single location more than five million years ago .
It happened as a result of the four events en masse terdamparnya whales , according to a report in the Royal Society journal .
Evidence strongly suggests that all the whales died from eating toxic seaweed .
Mammals are dead and dying then thrown to the waves by the beach where they were buried for millions of years .
Area located in Chile 's Atacama Desert is known as the ideal whale fossil graveyard .
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Their bones visible jutting out between the coral and the location was later renamed Cerro Ballena ( " whale hill " ) .
But the U.S. and Chilean researchers a new opportunity to study the fossil when the road widened Pan American .
They were given two weeks to complete it before the area was converted into the road .
The team then recorded the details as much as possible , create a 3D digital model of the skeleton is left and move the bones to be studied in the laboratory .
" We discovered creatures such as whales extinct sea lions , dolphins are evolved and have a face like a sea lion , " said Nicholas Pyenson , paleontology experts at the Smithsonian 's National Museum of Natural History in Washington DC , USA .
" It's incredible that we could find all the stars of world fossil marine mammals in South America , " said Pyenson .
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