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Xiaotong Peng

Lead researcher and marine geologist

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"Finding an isolated whale fall here or there would not have been surprising, but we have never seen anything on this scale before." — Xiaotong Peng

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Scientists map world's largest deep-sea whale graveyard

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Corresponding author of the Nature study

At 7,002 meters down, where sunlight never reaches, a Chinese crewed submersible found bones. Then hundreds more. Across a 1,200-kilometer trench on the Indian Ocean floor, researchers counted nearly 500 dead whales, the oldest skull dated to 5.3 million years ago.

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