Scientists Find Whale Grave on Arctic Seafloor

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorNorwegian government scientists using a remotely operated vehicle found a strange patch on the Arctic seafloor, and it turned out to be a whale grave, ScienceAlert reports.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorA whale grave. On the bottom of the sea.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe patch was a dense pile of tube worms, held up above the seafloor like little hairs.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThe team dug in and found bones and teeth.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorHairs. The seafloor has hairs, Hank, and somebody sent a robot to dig them up.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorIt was for MAREANO, Norway's national seabed-mapping program, which called it a whale fall. The team's diary says the smell wasn't so bad after all.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorNot so bad. And yet they wore gas masks, as a precaution.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThey also said they felt like the Indiana Jones of the deep sea.

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   Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorMy theory is the worms stand up like that to keep watch.

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    Dale Bearman · Chief Skeptic & ContributorNobody checks a grave unless something is guarding it, and now we've dug theirs up.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorMine is that they dug up a whale and it was fine. The masks were for you, Dale, and you weren't even there.