@tilscience: Why did hundreds of whales die in the exact same spot, on the same patch of ocean floor, across 5 million years in one of the deepest places on Earth? I need to know!! Did they know or is just a coincidence? Scientists have a theory. But the truth is that the whole whale graveyard headline isn’t the real news. It's actually something much stranger…a 5 million year old carbon vault. Scientists calculated that the soft tissue inside these whale carcasses holds roughly 6.7 million tons of sequestered carbon that’s been locked away on the seafloor for millions of years, building an entire ecosystem the same way hydrothermal vents do. The ocean doesn't waste anything. Not even this! Read more: Peng, X., Zhou, P., Song, X. et al. A 5.3-million-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone. Nature (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10546-z #whale #deepsea #underwater #graveyard

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