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

By: Xiaotong Peng · Peng Zhou · Xikun Song · Giovanni Bianucci · Mengran Du · Alberto Collareta · Zhaoming Gao · Tongtong Xie · Mingyao Teng · Daniel Leduc · Sadie Mills · Kaiwen Ta · Jiwei Li · Taoshu Wei · Shamik Dasgupta · Hao Liu · Yuan He · Wenjing Xu · Shuangquan Liu · Hanyu Zhang

10 June 2026 at 01:00

Nature, Published online: 10 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10546-z

Researchers uncovered an enormous deep-sea accumulation of whale remains in the southeastern Indian Ocean, showing long-term, specialized ecosystems and an extensive fossil record that offers new insight into deep-ocean biodiversity and whale evolutionary history.

A thalamus–brainstem attractor network drives history-biased decisions

Nature

By: Shan Zhao · Heying Shan · Xiao Liu · Yu Qian · Jingyao Huang · Yi-Ran Liu · Zhenfei Jiao · Lichen Ye · Lin Cong · Xiaoou Wang · Zhi-Yuan Wang · Danyang Li · Ming-Quan Chen · Kai Wang · Ling Fu · Xu-Fei Du · Si Wu · Yu Mu

10 June 2026 at 01:00

Nature, Published online: 10 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-10623-3

Whole-brain, cellular-resolution imaging reveals a hierarchical thalamus–brainstem attractor network that encodes recent history and shapes behavioural bias in zebrafish.