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What Should be Done with Washed Up Whale Carcasses

Cool Stuff Daily

Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

News, Society & Culture, Science, Tech News

4.6739 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2026

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Welcome to Cool Stuff Daily.

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I'm Redgerizu alongside Marcus Path.

0:50.3

Today, we're looking at what happens when a whale carcass washes ashore and what should be done.

0:57.3

Today we turn to another story from popular science and popsci.com from author Shoshi Parks.

1:04.4

A little bit of a history lesson in this one, by the way.

1:07.4

When a whale dies in the ocean, an ecosystem grows around its sunken carcass. It's an

1:13.5

epic burial at sea, something researchers call a whale fall. The body is a literal smorgas

1:19.1

board on which deep sea creatures and bacteria feast for years at a time before what's left

1:25.6

transforms into a reef festooned with anemones and sponges.

1:30.3

A whale that dies stranded on land is something different, a stinking mass of rotting flesh and draining fluids.

1:37.3

While scavenging birds might struggle to bust through the corpse's leathery skin,

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