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Related: About this forumAnd would you like to have a nice Chianti with your baleen?
A fossil in the making
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And would you like to have a nice Chianti with your baleen? (Original Post)
packman
Oct 2019
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BBC's earth had a whole dead whale being eaten. so drag them out to sea for dinner.
pansypoo53219
Oct 2019
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pansypoo53219
(21,005 posts)1. BBC's earth had a whole dead whale being eaten. so drag them out to sea for dinner.
GETPLANING
(846 posts)2. There will be no fossil
If you listen to the entire audio, they talk about the tiny little worms that completely dissolve and consume the bones.
Really cool YouTube channel, watch some of their other videos.
SeattleVet
(5,481 posts)3. Followed a couple of their voyages.
It's great to hear the scientists and researchers getting so excited about the things they are seeing.
Channel is here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1KOOWHthbQVXH2kZue3_xA
They have some amazing footage from these research cruises.
Piasladic
(1,160 posts)6. Amazing
Bone-eating worms... yow
SeattleVet
(5,481 posts)4. The followup video from when they came back to it:
A lot more detail, and you can see the remains of the heart and aorta!
What an amazing time to be around to be able to see science unfolding right before our eyes.
SCantiGOP
(13,875 posts)5. My first thought: manna from heaven
Living on the sea floor you just look up when you're hungry to see what might be floating down.