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Financial Times
Aug 12, 2023 - 16 min
When a whale dies, its existence doesn’t come to an end. When its carcass sinks to the bottom of the ocean, it can sustain a complex, localised eco-system of deep-sea organism for decades – a phenomenon called a ‘whale fall’. Virat Markandeya describes in Nautilus magazine.