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ArticleNature2026

A 5.3-million-year-old deep-sea whale necropolis in the Diamantina Zone.

Xiaotong Peng, Peng Zhou, Xikun Song, Giovanni Bianucci, Mengran Du, Alberto Collareta, Zhaoming Gao, Tongtong Xie, Mingyao Teng, Daniel Leduc and 10 more

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Article in Nature, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Sediment accumulation rate predicts the temporal resolution of marine fossil assemblages.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

20 authors.

Xiaotong Peng *State Key Laboratory of Deep-sea Science and Intelligence Technology, Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sanya, China. xtpeng@idsse.ac.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5823-3128
Peng Zhou *State Key Laboratory of Deep-sea Science and Intelligence Technology, Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sanya, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8661-1942
Xikun Song *State Key Laboratory of Deep-sea Science and Intelligence Technology, Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sanya, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3335-0029
Giovanni Bianucci *Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
Mengran Du *State Key Laboratory of Deep-sea Science and Intelligence Technology, Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sanya, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8862-5256
Alberto CollaretaDipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Pisa, Pisa, Italy.
Zhaoming GaoState Key Laboratory of Deep-sea Science and Intelligence Technology, Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sanya, China.
Tongtong XieState Key Laboratory of Deep-sea Science and Intelligence Technology, Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sanya, China.
Mingyao TengState Key Laboratory of Deep-sea Science and Intelligence Technology, Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sanya, China.
Daniel LeducEarth Sciences New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5310-9198
Sadie MillsEarth Sciences New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8122-0456
Kaiwen TaState Key Laboratory of Deep-sea Science and Intelligence Technology, Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sanya, China.
Jiwei LiState Key Laboratory of Deep-sea Science and Intelligence Technology, Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sanya, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4505-0282
Taoshu WeiState Key Laboratory of Deep-sea Science and Intelligence Technology, Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sanya, China.
Shamik DasguptaState Key Laboratory of Deep-sea Science and Intelligence Technology, Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sanya, China.
Hao LiuState Key Laboratory of Deep-sea Science and Intelligence Technology, Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sanya, China.
Yuan HeState Key Laboratory of Deep-sea Science and Intelligence Technology, Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sanya, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4258-7770
Wenjing XuState Key Laboratory of Deep-sea Science and Intelligence Technology, Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sanya, China.
Shuangquan LiuState Key Laboratory of Deep-sea Science and Intelligence Technology, Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sanya, China.
Hanyu ZhangState Key Laboratory of Deep-sea Science and Intelligence Technology, Institute of Deep-sea Science and Engineering, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Sanya, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Whale falls are biodiversity oases at seabeds

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EcosystemFossilsWhalesAnimalsBiodiversityIndian OceanTime Factors

Identifiers

PMID42271050
PMCPMC13293867

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