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Whale falls can support complex deep-sea communities for decades after a carcass reaches the seafloor.
Pacific sleeper sharks are known scavengers that consume large marine mammal carcasses, including whales that sink to the ocean floor, turning a single deep-sea whale fall into a feeding site for a bus-length predator.
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Whale carcasses can weigh tens of tons, and when they descend thousands of meters, sleeper sharks detect and exploit these rare feasts in near-total darkness where food is otherwise scarce.
By consuming massive carrion at depth, they accelerate nutrient recycling in abyssal ecosystems, linking the death of the largest animals on Earth to the survival of one of the largest sharks in the deep Pacific.
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