Located up to 23,000 feet below the surface of the southeastern Indian Ocean, the site spans the largest area and is so far the deepest and oldest found.

Scientists have unearthed communities of marine life — including jellyfish, tubeworms and brittle stars — thriving on a millions-year-old whale graveyard. These graveyards form when whale carcasses fall to the sea floor,

An enormous whale graveyard around 1,200km (745 miles) long has been discovered in the south-eastern Indian Ocean. The site, which is 7km (four miles) deep, has been found in the Diamantina fracture zone,

The researchers saw many strange animals — many believed to be new to science — living off the whale carcasses.

The fossilized remains of more than 450 whales have amassed along a 750-mile-long stretch of the Indian Ocean floor

The ocean floor is covered with dead whales–but it is everything but a biohazard. When a whale dies, its body sinks to the ocean floor in a process called whale fall. The carcass then becomes its own complex ecosystem,

Researchers diving 7 kilometres deep in a crewed submersible have discovered a vast collection of whale bones, including fossils up to 5 million years old and species new to science

A team of researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, in collaboration with the University of Pisa in Italy and Earth Sciences New Zealand, conducted 32 dives in a human-occupied vehicle in the Diamantina Zone,