There’s billions of life forms on there. Say a shrimp dies and isn’t eaten up or anything by scavengers, could it pickle over time? The way we pickle meats in a salt brine? The ocean is a salt brine in itself.
There’s billions of life forms on there. Say a shrimp dies and isn’t eaten up or anything by scavengers, could it pickle over time? The way we pickle meats in a salt brine? The ocean is a salt brine in itself.
Every multicellular creature lives in symbiosis with a plethora of bacteria, inside and outside of its system, those will always be the first to start decomposition. You’d need extreme conditions to sterilize those and avoid decomposition, and even then, there’s pretty much not a cubic millimeter in the ocean that isn’t filled with other bacteria and fungi.