A History Of Life

1. Ichthyosaur turbidites
(Taphonomy/Vertebrate Transport & Burial)

...able in water in a short time. But where a modern turbidity current may catch something as a dolphin or whale carcass on its way to the last burial place, during the Norian it was ichthyosaurs, eus...

2. Sperm whales carcasses at the shelf break
(Past ecosystems/Whale-fall communities)

Finally some evidence on the sulphophilic stage of whale-fall communities at relatively shallow depths. The ecosystem that develops around a carcass of a large cetacean undergoes four successional sta

3. What not to do with a beached whale
(Past ecosystems/Whale-fall communities)

When a whale washes ashore in your next beach and people in charge are asked what to do, now you have the answer. Instead of attacking the carcass with dynamite, with the obvious effect of creating

4. New species of sea anemone at 3000 m
(Past ecosystems/Whale-fall communities)

A new anemone species has been found on whale bones lying on a deep-water bottom, around 3000 m in the Monterey Canyon, Pacific Ocean. The name chosen by Meg Daly and Luciana Gusmao, the specialists

5. Whale-fall bivalves
(Past ecosystems/Whale-fall communities)

...e balaenid at Orciano Pisano, in Tuscany, shows how shelfal fishes and invertebrates may gather around a whale-carcass following successional stages at shelfal depths. With this respect, they do much ...

6. Whale-fall communities on the shelf
(Past ecosystems/Whale-fall communities)

Whale-fall communities have been studied since the eighties, attracting ecologists and paleoecologists alike. Incredible findings of mouthless-worms sucking fat from whale bones and a variety