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SCIENCEJun 12 · 01:00 UTCSCMP CHINADannie Peng

For 5 million years, whales have come to this place in the Indian Ocean to die

Chinese deep-sea explorers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences discovered the largest whale-fall site in the Indian Ocean, the deepest and most extensive accumulation of whale fossils and carcasses, with some fossils dating back 5.3 million years. The study was published in the journal Nature.

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