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Chris Simms

Scientists discover 5 million-year-old whale graveyard stretching for hundreds of miles in the Indian Ocean

Deep sea images show whale skeletons on the seafloor.

Scientists have discovered a vast whale graveyard stretching for hundreds of miles in the Indian Ocean, with some fossil bones dating back over 5 million years.

The deep-sea "megasite," which the researchers have named the Diamantina Zone necropolis, is the most extensive accumulation of whale carcasses and fossils ever found, the researchers reported in a new study published Wednesday (June 10) in the journal Nature.

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