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There are many examples of sites with vast accumulations of preserved fossils. Some of these fossil ‘graveyards’ (meaning sites with an accumulation of remains, rather than chosen locations associated with death) formed in marine settings and became accessible only through the uplift of tectonic plates. These sites formed at various times, but none is still actively forming. Writing in Nature, Peng et al.1 describe a newly discovered, unique graveyard of whale remains (also called whale falls), deep in the southeastern Indian Ocean along the length of what is known as the Diamantina fracture zone.
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doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-026-01581-x
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