When a whale dies out in the open ocean, its body slowly drifts to the seafloor, where it breathes life into a temporary ecosystem. But whales weren’t the first ones to live on after death; Jurassic ...

Place Cambridgeshire, England Published Name Ophthalmosaurus icenicus Seeley, 1874 See more items in Paleogeneral Reptiles/Amphibians ...

After the discovery of whale fall communities in modern oceans, it has been hypothesized that during the Mesozoic the carcasses of marine reptiles created similar habitats supporting long-lived and ...

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