For 5 million years, whales have come to this place in the Indian Ocean to die
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A massive whale graveyard spanning 1,200 kilometers in the Indian Ocean at depths of 7,000 meters contains approximately 500 whale skeletons with fossils dating back over 5 million years. The site hosts a thriving ecosystem of living marine species, many believed to be new to science, and demonstrates the role of whale falls in carbon sequestration and deep-sea ecosystem evolution across millions of years.
Chinese deep-sea explorers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have discovered the largest “whale-fall site” ever recorded in the Indian Ocean.
The graveyard is the Earth’s deepest and most extensive known accumulation of whale fossils, carcasses and the unique ecosystems they support, with some fossils dating back about 5.3 million years.
Detailed in a paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature on Wednesday, the study was conducted by researchers from the CAS Institute of...
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