INCREDIBLE whalefall news: a five-million old necropolis of whale skeletons has been found -- five active ecosystems and almost 500 fossil cetaceans (incl extinct species!), in the Diamantina Zone, 1200 km long and >5km deep in the Indian Ocean. [open access paper] nature.com/articles/s41...
Researchers uncovered an enormous deep-sea accumulation of whale remains in the southeastern Indian Ocean, showing long-term, specialized ecosystems and an extensive fossil record that offers new insight into deep-ocean biodiversity and whale evolutionary history.
