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

Researchers uncovered an enormous deep-sea accumulation of whale remains in the southeastern Indian Ocean, showing long-term, specialized ecosystems and an extensive fossil record…

In the Indian Ocean, a deep-sea area roughly 1,200 kilometres long and 7 kilometres deep was found to harbour an ecological landmark site of whale remains.

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