The discovery of a natural whale fall in the Antarctic deep sea

• Published in: Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography
• Main Authors: Amon, Diva J., Glover, Adrian G., Wiklund, Helena, Marsh, Leigh, Linse, Katrin, Rogers, Alex D., Copley, Jonathan T.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: Antarctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Stepping Stones; Antarc*; Antarctic Minke whale; Balaenoptera bonaerensis; minke whale
• Online Access: https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/350099/

Large cetacean carcasses at the deep-sea floor, known as ‘whale falls’, provide a resource for generalist-scavenging species, chemosynthetic fauna related to those from hydrothermal vents and cold seeps, and remarkable bone-specialist species such as Osedax worms. Here we report the serendipitous di...