The world's largest whale graveyard has been discovered at the bottom of the Indian Ocean by Chinese scientists, who found ...

The researchers saw many strange animals — many believed to be new to science — living off the whale carcasses.

The massive necropolis, located deep in the southeastern Indian Ocean, is teeming with marine life supported by the whale carcasses, including many suspected new species ...

To come across a "whale fall" — the decomposing body of the marine mammal that has fallen to the sea floor — is a rare occurrence in the deep ocean. So when a Chinese-led research expedition ...

A remarkable deep-sea expedition uncovered an unexpected underwater archive that could transform scientists' understanding of ...

Researchers operating a deep-sea submersible have found the world’s largest known whale graveyard on the ocean floor, uncovering dozens of whale carcasses and a thriving ecosystem of creatures — many ...

Chinese scientists have discovered what is believed to be the world's largest, deepest, and oldest whale graveyard at the bottom of the southeastern Indian Ocean, uncovering an extraordinary ...

The world's largest known deep-sea whale graveyard, formed over 5.3 million years, has been discovered at depths of up to 7,000 meters in the Indian Ocean.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering, CAS Scientists exploring the deep Indian Ocean have found a huge ...

"These findings," writes a team led by deep-sea scientist Xiaotong Peng of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, "reshape the ...

The world's biggest whale graveyard found to date has been discovered in the Indian Ocean in international waters off the coast of Australia. Five whales actively decomposing and 476 cetacean fossils, ...