The whale had been dead for years, but its remains had become a thriving community on the seafloor, feeding clams, mussels, limpets and snails. A natural burial for a whale—dying in the ocean ...

Using suction-cup sensors attached to three humpback whales, researchers captured video footage of the animals rolling around on the ocean floor. Griffith University Despite their large size ...

Whale carcasses take decades to fully decompose and can provide food for an entire ecosystem on the dark depths of the ocean floor. Dr Adrian Glover, a Museum expert in deep-sea biodiversity, sheds ...

Paleolithic humans used whale bones as tools 20,000 years ago, the earliest evidence of marine tool-making discovered.

When a large marine mammal like a whale dies, its body drifts to the ocean floor in a process known as ... by stripping it and burrowing into the bones to find nutrients. In a video by the Ocean ...

When a large marine creature like a whale dies, its body drifts to the ocean floor in a process called ... vital nutrients ...

Scientists researching humpback whales off of Australia’s Gold Coast found that the large marine mammals were drawn to a sandy, shallow area of the ocean floor where they appeared to be removing ...

After a 2021 survey showed thousands of barrel-size objects on the sea floor, the researchers ... the video imagery. The whale falls are about 3,000 feet below the ocean’s surface, according ...

By Carl Zimmer Paleontologists on Wednesday unveiled the fossilized bones of one of the strangest whales in history ... Manatees graze on sea grass on the ocean floor. Their lungs are full ...

But was this ocean mining boom sparked by a 1970s CIA ... When the seabed was dredged, the nets brought up teeth from sharks and ear bones from whales but also small rocks. Initially described ...

The bones and teeth were not from a shark or whale, experts said ... It was clear that whatever died had fallen to the ocean floor and been picked apart by sea life, leaving only the heaviest ...