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, D, Glover, A, Wiklund, H, Marsh, L, Linse, K, Rogers, A, Copley, J
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Antarctic; Southern Ocean; Stepping Stones; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctic Minke whale; Balaenoptera bonaerensis; minke whale
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2013.01.028; https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:f6d0ee5d-8d33-4890-ad3b-d7f6d0513f62

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 serend...