The discovery of a natural whale fall in the Antarctic deep sea
Large cetacean carcasses at the deep-sea floor, known as 'whale falls', provide a resource for generalist-scavenging species, chemosynthetic fauna related to those from hydrothermal vents and cold seeps, and remarkable bone-specialist species such as Osedax worms. Here we report the serend...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2013
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