We have a long history of being HUGE fans of the “bone-devouring zombie worm from hell”. Osedax species were described less than 10 years ago and much work on their reproduction, evolution and ecology has yielded incredible insights into a unique and bizarre way of life! Early on, Osedax was only found on whale bones . . . → Read More: Whale Bone-Devouring Worm Into More Than Just Whales
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By Kevin Zelnio, on  April 17th, 2011  7 comments  Adaptations, Ecology, Mating & Reproduction, New Research, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls  Adrian Glover, Best of Zelnio, bone, Bone Worm, Colonization, Craig Smith, deep sea, dwarf male, fish, Greg Rouse, Habitat, Life History, lipid, Monterey Canyon, Nutrition, Osedax, Robert Vrijenhoek, Whale Fall By Kevin Zelnio, on December 17th, 2010 4 comments Adaptations, Evolution, New Research, New Species, Organisms Best of Zelnio, bone, MBARI, Nutrition, Osedax, Radula, Rubyspira, Trophic Ecology, Whale Fall You’ve all heard about the bone-eating zombie worm from hell. Yeah it was like OK, but whatever. It had its day like, you know, way back in the 2000s. Now though, all the rage is the BONE SNAIL! Yeah, that’s right the BoNe SnAiL!!! Its cooler than cool, just trust me. The Bone Snail is . . . → Read More: Move Over Boneworm, the Bone Snail is Taking Over
By Kevin Zelnio, on March 6th, 2010 4 comments Conservation & Environment, Organisms, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls bone, Bone Worm, Carbon, deep sea, Nutrient Cycling, Osedax, whale, Whale Fall There is a disturbing trend in this BBC news article about the relationship between whaling and carbon. The report comes from a talk at The Ocean Science meeting in Portland last week discussing some calculations presented by Dr. Andrew Pershing on how whaling is putting “locked up” carbon back into the atmosphere. “Whales, like any . . . → Read More: Won’t They Think of the Poor Bone-Eating Worms?
David Honig is a graduate student in marine science at Duke University in the lab of Dr. Cindy Van Dover. He is participating in LARISSA, a 2 month multinational expedition to study the causes and consequences of the ice shelf collapse. He will be posting regular updates on the expedition exclusively for Deep Sea News . . . → Read More: Dispatches from Antarctica – Whalebone Lander Recovery
By Dr. M, on November 15th, 2009 8 comments Adaptations, Fish, Organisms, Pictures and Movies biomechanics, bone, fish, fish head, jaw protrusion, ligament, novelty, skull, slingjaw wrass Epibulus insidiator, the slingjaw wrass, “possesses the most extreme jaw protrusion ever measured in fishes.” Individuals can protrude their jaw up to half the body length to capture crabs, shrimps, and small fishes. This occurs through multiple structural novelties, as the video above can attest to, involving fundamentally reorganizing the way the bones and . . . → Read More: Crazy Fish Heads
By Kevin Zelnio, on November 26th, 2008 7 comments Mating & Reproduction, New Research, Organisms, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls Annelida, Best of Zelnio, bone, dwarf male, Larval Pool, Monterey Canyon, Osedax, polyandry, Recruitment, Siboglinidae, whale, worm Long time readers will be all too aware of my absolute fascination with the bone-devouring zombie worms from the ocean’s depths. Since their discovery merely 6 years ago, researchers have uncovered many discoveries about these strange creatures. To review: Fun Facts on the genus Osedax (meaning “bone-devourer”)! Gather round the whole family! Not only do . . . → Read More: Mommy, Where Do Dwarf Male Harems Come From?
By Kevin Zelnio, on October 30th, 2008 One comment Organisms, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls Annelida, bone, Osedax, Siboglinidae, whale, Whale Fall, worm #2 Genus Osedax (Phylum: Annelida, Class: Polychaeta, Order: Sabellida, Family: Siboglinidae) BONEZ1!! WE WANTZ UR BONEZ!! Perhaps the scariest deep sea creature, Osedax (latin for “bone devourer”) is a genus of tubeworm that lives on the carcasses of whales that have fallen to the seafloor. It lives off of mining the lipids in the . . . → Read More: The 27 Best Deep-Sea Species #2: Bone-Devouring Zombie Worms from Hell
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