

| 論文題目 | A 5.3-million-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone |
| 論文題目(英文) | A 5.3-million-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone |
| 作者 | 彭曉彤(1);周鵬(1);宋希坤(1);Bianucci Giovanni(2);杜夢然(1);Collareta Alberto(2);高兆明(1);謝桐桐(1);滕明耀(1);Leduc Daniel(3);Mills Sadie(3);他開文(1);李季偉(1);魏韜書(1);Dasgupta Shamik(1);劉皓(1);何源(1);徐文景(1);柳雙權(quán)(1);張漢羽(1) |
| 發(fā)表年度 | 2026-06-10 |
| 卷 | 654 |
| 期 | |
| 頁碼 | 978–983 |
| 期刊名稱 | Nature |
| 摘要 |
Whale falls are biodiversity oases at seabeds1–6, yet their record from the oceans has remained sparse and fragmentary6,7. Here we report the discovery of a vast whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone (4,616- to 7,001-m depth), extending about 1,200 km along the sea floor of the southeastern Indian Ocean. This area has a deep and extensive accumulation comprising five modern natural whale-fall communities and 476 fossil cetaceans recorded. We show that carcasses host specialized communities dominated by brittle stars, bone-boring worms and chemosynthesis-based bivalves and that the fossil record in this area comprises both extant and extinct deep-diving beaked whales. Isotopic dating shows that whale falls in this region have occurred since at least 5.3 million years ago. These findings reshape the understanding of the limits and biogeography of whale-fall ecosystems and establish some deep sea floors as a fossil archive for tracing cetacean evolution over geological time. |
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