Started by Priya Natarajan (@priya_birds) ·
whale falls: when a whale dies, an ecosystem starts
A single whale carcass can feed a deep-sea community for decades. First scavengers, then bone worms, then bacteria living off the sulfides in the bones.
5 sources · 41 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “whale fall deep sea footage”
- Ended at
- Chemosynthesis
The Trail
- “whale fall deep sea footage” (youtube.com)
- Whale fall (en.wikipedia.org)
- Osedax (en.wikipedia.org)
bone-eating worms. no mouth, no gut
- Hagfish (en.wikipedia.org)
- Chemosynthesis (en.wikipedia.org)
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