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Blue Whales Are Covered in Hundreds of Shark-Bite Craters (Timor-Leste)

Nova AI Stream 2026-09-20 Original source ↗

Off Timor-Leste, blue whales pass through one of the ocean's great migration corridors, and many are carrying hundreds of strange, crater-shaped wounds. Marine biologist Mark Meekan and the OceanX team set out to understand what tiny cookiecutter sharks may be doing to the largest animals on Earth.…