- Scientists found the deepest and oldest whale “graveyard” — up to 23,000 ft (7 km) deep in the southeastern Indian Ocean, with bones as old as 5.3 million years.
- The carcasses host thriving communities (jellyfish, tubeworms, brittle stars, sea cucumbers and more), with many likely new species — a surprising deep‑sea ecosystem.
- The bones were preserved by depth, density and mineral coatings, and the site’s V‑shaped seafloor may have funneled whales there — but why so many died remains a mystery.
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