Adithi Ramakrishnan Sun, June 14, 2026 at 10:00 a.m. UTC 2 min read Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This undated image provided by Peng Zhou shows a Chinese submersible recovering fossilized whale bones from the deep seafloor, southeastern Indian Ocean, in the Diamantina Fracture Zone. Scientists have unearthed communities of marine life — including jellyfish, tubeworms and brittle stars — thriving on a whale graveyard that is millions of years old.