World’s largest whale graveyard discovered by Chinese scientists

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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.