{"id":152816,"date":"2026-06-12T01:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T01:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=152816"},"modified":"2026-06-12T01:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T01:00:15","slug":"for-5-million-years-whales-have-come-to-this-place-in-the-indian-ocean-to-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=152816","title":{"rendered":"For 5 million years, whales have come to this place in the Indian Ocean to die"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChinese deep-sea explorers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have discovered the largest \u201cwhale-fall site\u201d ever recorded in the Indian Ocean.<br \/>\nThe graveyard is the Earth\u2019s deepest and most extensive known accumulation of whale fossils, carcasses and the unique ecosystems they support, with some fossils dating back about 5.3 million years.<br \/>\nDetailed in a paper published in the peer-reviewed journal Nature on Wednesday, the study was conducted by researchers from the CAS Institute of&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3356773\/5-million-years-whales-have-come-place-indian-ocean-die?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostChinese deep-sea explorers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) have discovered the largest \u201cwhale-fall site\u201d ever recorded in the Indian Ocean. The graveyard&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152816"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}