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Scientists Found a Massive Whale Graveyard That’s Been Filling Up for 5 Million Years

It might be home to entirely new species.

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A team of researchers recently found out what happens to a whale carcass sitting at the bottom of the ocean for 15 years. Now, according to findings published in Nature, a completely different team of marine researchers has one-upped that discovery by finding a whale “necropolis,” as the researchers are calling it, in the southeastern Indian Ocean: a massive whale burial ground that has been accumulating bodies for millions of years.

The site sits nearly 23,000 feet beneath the surface in the Diamantina Zone, a........

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