Sunken whale carcasses, known as ‘whale falls’, deliver large pulses of organic material to the seafloor and serve as habitat islands for unique assemblages of deep‐sea fauna that include generalist scavenging species, chemosynthetic fauna related to those from hydrothermal vents and cold seeps, and bone‐specialist species. Despite the growing interest in this peculiar habitat in the last decade, all long‐term studies of deep‐...