Whale Fall sites.
The ABC was reporting this heavily yesterday ...

"The *whale graveyard* was found during an expedition by the Chinese research vessel Tan Suo Yi Hao in March, 2023.

RV Tan Suo Yi Hao is often used for the Global Trench Exploration and Diving Program, a collaborative endeavour between China's Institute of Deep Sea Science and Engineering (IDSSE) and several countries, including New Zealand."

They have only now published a paper in Nature about this.
It is a significant find.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2026-06-11/world-s-biggest-whale-graveyard-found-in-the-indian-ocean/106778126

"The first time we saw the whale fossils, we didn't recognise them as whale remains because they were coated with ferromanganese oxides," deep-sea geologist Peng Zhou, from IDSSE, said.

"Still, we could tell they were something special, so we collected the samples. Surprisingly, we found more and more similar whale fossils in later dives."

#Whales #Hadal_Zone #Whale_Fall #Biology #Archaeology #Research #Geology #necropolis