Cuvier’s beaked whale. Image via Openverse. When a whale dies, its massive body typically doesn’t immediately sink to the ocean floor. Instead, the carcass often floats for several days or even weeks.

When large marine animals like whales die, they sink down to the seabed. Once their flesh has been stripped away by ...

Long before whales ruled the oceans, ancient bone-eating worms were already thriving on the seafloor, feasting on the ...

In the heart of Egypt's Sahara Desert, an extraordinary site known as Wadi Al-Hitan, or Whale Valley, has unveiled fossils ...