Millions of Fossil Whale Bones Found in Deep Ocean Graveyard

深海墓地惊现数百万具化石鲸骨

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2026-06-11

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Episode 375 The world’s deepest known whale graveyard has been discovered in the southern Indian Ocean. Located at a depth of seven kilometres, it contains millions of whale bones and has been described as a “deep-sea fossil megasite” and a whale necropolis. Chinese researchers, diving in the crewed Fendouzhe submersible, undertook 32 dives along 1200 kilometres of the seafloor in an area known as the Diamantina Zone. They discovered a vast amount of whale bones of different ages.  Recent carcasses support a thriving ecosystem of invertebrates such as bone eating worms and brittle stars, but there are also fossil bones up to 5 million years old.  Why are the bones collected in this area? Join host Rowan Hooper and reporter James Woodford as they discuss the startling and eerie discovery.To read more about these stories, visit https://www.newscientist.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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  • The world's deepest known whale graveyard, whale graveyard, has been discovered in the southern Indian Ocean.

  • It's a depth of seven kilometers.

  • It's been described as a deep sea fossil mega site or a whale necr...

  • Is part of a program to map the deepest parts of the ocean.

  • If they found this out there with hundreds of whale skeletons, you just wonder what else they're gonna discover.

  • From New Scientist, this is the world the universe and us.

  • I'm Dr. Rowan Hooper.

  • I'm joined today by Australia reporter, James Woodford.