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Mysterious whale 'necropolis' discovered at the bottom of the Indian Ocean

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A team of researchers has uncovered hundreds of fossilized whale carcasses off the southwest coast of Australia. Spanning 1,200 kilometers, this is the largest, deepest and oldest cetacean bone graveyard ever observed.

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