When a dead whale sinks to the seafloor, its 'whale fall' becomes an oasis feeding deep-sea life for decades — up to 190 species crowding a single skeleton, with bone-eating worms gnawing the bones for as long as a decade

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• A 5-million-year-old whale graveyard Deccan Herald · 19h ago
• Scientists Found 476 Dead Whales in One Ocean Trench Popular Mechanics · 19h ago
• Bury me in the whale graveyard – let the weird starfish chew my bones The Guardian · 19h ago
• World's Largest 'Whale Graveyard' Teems with Deep-Sea Life Including Species Unknown to Science Good News Network · 19h ago
• When a dead whale sinks to the seafloor, its 'whale fall' becomes an oasis feeding deep-sea life for decades — up to 190 species crowding a single skeleton, with bone-eating worms gnawing the bones for as long as a decade Space Daily · 19h ago

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