The most obvious explanation on this incredible finding is that this is a geological and biological trap, a very deep seafloor of ridges and trenches that may help funnel whale carcasses into the same area where they have accumulated over millions of years.
Sometimes big numbers can pass you by but this is mind-blowing.
'An enormous whale graveyard around 1,200km (745 miles) long and 7km (four miles) deep has been discovered in the south-eastern Indian Ocean. Some of the remains are 5.3 million years old.'
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DB Maggi
The Indian Ocean site is "far beyond anything we had imagined", one researcher says.
