What is a whale fall?
What is a whale fall?
Jun 16, 2024
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4.7K views · 150 reactions | Imagine discovering a prehistoric whale carcass on the bottom of the ocean sea floor. We stumbled across this fossilized whale in Venice Florida on one of our dive charters. What a killer find. 20 large verts and many more bones fresh out of the clay. | Fossil Junkies | Facebook
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Whale Fall: When a whale dies, its massive body sinks to the ocean floor and becomes a source of life. In the deep sea, where food is extremely rare, this single whale feeds thousands of creatures. Scavengers consume the soft tissue first, sustaining life for months. Then smaller organisms and bacteria break down the remaining bones, releasing nutrients for years. Entire ecosystems form around the carcass, supporting species that exist nowhere else. This process is called a whale fall — a powerf
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75K views · 679 reactions | Though it’s always sad to know a whale has lost its life, a whale carcass supplies an ecosystem with an incredible amount of nutrients! I love witnessing the scavengers like sharks come in to feed at the surface. As it falls it’ll continue to feed the deep sea ecosystem of the sea floor. kaimanaoceansafari #deadwhale #tigershark #savesharks #kona #hawaii #ocean #whale | Kayleigh Nicole Grant | Facebook
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Sunken whale carcasses create entire marine cities on the ocean floor
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The Blue whale carcass that washed ashore in 2015 near Gold Beach was the first known beached blue whale in Oregon in more than 200 years. Its bones will be shipped up to Canada to be cleaned and partly assembled. It could be ready for display at the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport as early as the end of 2023. Institute emeritus director Bruce Mate and stranding coordinator Jim Rice lead a team of 45 OSU students, staff and faculty, as well as local volunteers to dismember and salvage
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