A dead whale shows up on your beach. What do you do with the 40-ton carcass?
via bbc.com
Short excerpt below. Read at the original source.
A fin whale washed ashore in Anchorage and was left there for months. Then a self-described ‘wacko’ museum director made a plan When a whale dies, its body descends to the bottom of the deep sea in a transformative phenomenon called a whale fall. A whale’s death jump-starts an explosion of life, enough to feed […]