Newly Discovered "Whale Necropolis" Enhances Understanding of Deep-Sea Ecology
Jun 11, 2026
Researchers from the Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, along with the collaborators, have now documented the world's deepest and largest known aggregation of whale fossils and active whale-fall ecosystems. This deep-sea site, referred to as a "whale necropolis" due to its vast size, is located in the Diamantina Zone of the southeastern Indian Ocean and contains evidence of cetacean falls for at least 5.3 million years.
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