Chinese scientists have discovered the world's largest and oldest known whale graveyard on the floor of the Indian Ocean, a 1,200-kilometre corridor of bones stretching as deep as 7,000 metres, with fossils dating back 5.3 million years.

Results that have just been published in the journal Nature on Wednesday are already shaking scientists' knowledge about deep-sea communities.

In 2023, scientists working at the Chinese Academy of Sciences will conduct 32 dives in the Fendouzhe submarine, which has revealed........

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