Chinese scientists identify largest known whale graveyard (opens in new tab)

Chinese scientists have identified what researchers describe as the world’s largest, deepest and oldest known whale graveyard on the Diamantina Zone seafloor in the Indian Ocean west of Australia. The site contains hundreds of whale remains along a roughly 1,200-kilometre corridor at depths reaching 7,000 metres. The study, published in Nature on Wednesday, reported fossils dating back about 5.3 million years and modern carcasses recent enough to support scavengers. Researchers identified a p...