Nearly 500 skeletons, including some 5.3 million years old, lie at a depth of 7,000 metres on the bottom of the Indian Ocean: scientists have discovered the largest whale cemetery in the world, but it is full of life, reports AFP.
It sounds like science fiction: ten million dead whales, some over five million years old. Chinese researchers discovered a 1200 km long "bone corridor" in the Indian Ocean. What they saw there breathed away.
Nearly 500 skeletons, including some 5.3 million years old, lie at a depth of 7,000 metres on the bottom of the Indian Ocean: scientists have discovered the largest whale cemetery in the world, but it is full of life, reports AFP.
The site, the deepest and most extensive known so far, could contain up to 10 million bone fragments of whales The post They discover a whale cemetery at 7,000 meters depth first appeared on Junior Report.