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On Tue, 12 Dec 2023 01:47:42 +0000, danny burstein <
dannyb@panix.com> wrote:
(anyone still here?)
[Associated Press]
52-foot-long dead fin whale washes up on San Diego beach; cause
of death unclear
San Diego - 52-foot-long (16-meter-long) dead fin whale washed up on a
San Diego beach over the weekend and officials said there was no obvious >sign of the cause of death.
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rest: >https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/52-foot-long-dead-fin-whale-washes-up-on-san-diego-beach-cause-of-death-unclear/ar-AA1lll7k
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Yes, and IJLS "whale fall"*. And "chemoautotrophic whale-fall community".
Thomas Prufer
* "From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A whale fall occurs when the carcass of a whale has fallen onto the ocean floor at a depth greater than 1,000 m (3,300 ft), in the bathyal or abyssal zones.[1] On the sea floor, these carcasses can create complex localized ecosystems that supply sustenance to deep-sea organisms for decades.[1] This is unlike in shallower waters, where a whale carcass will be consumed by scavengers over a relatively short period of time. Whale falls were first observed in the late 1970s with the development of deep-sea robotic exploration.[2] Since then, several natural and experimental whale falls have been monitored[1][3] through the use of observations from submersibles and remotely operated underwater vehicles (ROVs) in order to understand patterns of ecological succession on the deep seafloor.[4]
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