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Scientists Discover the First Ever Whale Graveyard??

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Why did hundreds of whales die in the exact same spot, on the same patch of ocean floor, across 5 million years in one of the deepest places on Earth? Did they know or is just a coincidence? Scientists have a theory.

But the truth is that the whole whale graveyard headline isn’t the real news. It’s actually something much stranger…a 5 million year old carbon vault. Scientists calculated that the soft tissue inside these whale carcasses holds roughly 6.7 million tons of sequestered carbon that’s

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