New Species Discovered On Whale Skeletons

Monday, September 21, 2009 - 09:14 in Biology & Nature

When a whale dies, it sinks to the seafloor and becomes food for an entire ecosystem. Researchers have discovered previously unknown species that feed only on dead whales - and use DNA technology to show that the species diversity in our oceans may be higher than previously thought.

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