According to io9, the film 'Whalefall' unfortunately proves that its depictions of deep-sea horror are grounded in genuine marine science. When a whale dies and sinks to the ocean floor—a process called whalefall—it creates a temporary ecosystem where deep-sea scavengers converge. The movie's unsettling portrayal of this biological reality isn't sensationalized; those primal ocean-floor terrors the film evokes are rooted in actual scientific fact.

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