Animals • June 19, 2026
World’s Largest ‘Whale Graveyard’ Teems with Deep-Sea Life Including Species Unknown to Science
Originally published on Good News Network

Chinese scientists have discovered the world's largest "whale graveyard" in a trench deep below the Indian Ocean—and it teems with life. Bivalves, brittle stars, different kinds of worms, and jellyfish—many of which may be new to science, thrived in what the scientists suggested might have acted as an "evolutionary hotspot." Since the phenomenon of "whale
Chinese scientists have discovered the world's largest "whale graveyard" in a trench deep below the Indian Ocean—and it teems with life. Bivalves, brittle stars, different kinds of worms, and jellyfish—many of which may be new to science, thrived in what the scientists suggested might have acted as an "evolutionary hotspot." Since the phenomenon of "whale
Originally published on Good News Network.
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