Whale graveyard dating back five million years discovered
The Indian Ocean site is "far beyond anything we had imagined", one researcher says.
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"Discovering a necropolis of this scale was completely unexpected. The size of distribution, the depth and the age range were far beyond anything we had imagined."
— Xiaotong Peng , Academic
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The Indian Ocean site is "far beyond anything we had imagined", one researcher says.
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