🔬 Science Jun 12, 2026 · Frank Jacobs

Cathedral of bones: Inside the world’s largest, deepest, and oldest whale graveyard

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Cathedral of bones: Inside the world’s largest, deepest, and oldest whale graveyard
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Life on Earth is older, stranger, and more grimly beautiful than we have time to consider most days. So take a moment to marvel over the recently discovered dark wonder that is the world’s oldest, deepest, and largest whale graveyard — a necropolis so vast it sounds less than a scientific find than the premise of a lost Jules Verne novel.
A vast gash off the coast of Australia
How old? The fossilized skull of a Pterocetus benguelae, an extinct species of beaked whale, has been dated to 5.26 mill

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