A 5.3 million-year-old whale graveyard has been found on the floor of the Indian Ocean

By Vanessa Pirotta, Postdoctoral Researcher and Wildlife Scientist, Macquarie UniversityJune 10, 2026

Chinese scientists have discovered hundreds of ancient whale carcasses deep in the Diamantina Zone off the coast of Western Australia.

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