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 22nd, 2010 Leave a comment Music, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls 6-Gill Shark, David Honig, Hagfish, Music, Osedax, Whale Fall This one goes out to David from my lab who just got back from 2 months down under in Antarctica and deployed whale bones for part of his experiments. You can read up on all his updates while he was at sea. Every Whale Has A Bone (with apologies to Brett Michael) We both . . . → Read More: Every Whale Has Its Bone
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?
By Dr. M, on November 4th, 2009 4 comments Carnivals & Link Love, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls Audobon, Osedax, Whale Fall A nice write up this month in the Audobon Magazine by Amanda Mascarelli discussing whale-falls and Osedax worms. You can read it for free online. By Dr. M, on October 22nd, 2009 One comment Carnivals & Link Love, New Research, Scientist!, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls Adrian Glover, Osedax, sperm whale, whale, Whale Fall, whaling I am standing in the back of a large lorry, my feet submerged in a pool of blood, water and oil. The truck’s container is open to a grey Welsh sky, but with high-sided walls to keep the blood and us hidden from view. I shout instructions to Nick, my PhD student, over the wind . . . → Read More: Chopping Up Whales For Science!
By Kevin Zelnio, on January 26th, 2009 6 comments Education, Opinion & Editorial, Organisms, Pictures and Movies, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls Bone Worm, Duke Marine Lab, Osedax, Southern Fried Science, Zombie Worm The Southern Fried Scientist is TA’ing Invertebrate Zoology with Cindy Van Dover at the Marine Lab here. They are having their students create a 2-3 minute podcast of a published article on invertebrate biology, called Topic in Marine Invertebrate Zoology (TiMIZ), and he is posting them to his blog and the course YouTube Channel. I . . . → Read More: Crazy ‘Bout Those Dwarf Males Profizzah
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
By Kevin Zelnio, on March 2nd, 2008 18 comments Adaptations, Mating & Reproduction, New Research, New Species, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls Annelida, Best of Zelnio, Bone Worm, dwarf male, Osedax, polyandry, Siboglinidae, whale, Whale Fall, worm These chicas are freaky. But if you lived on a whale vertebrae and eat through bone, perhaps you’d be a little on the kinky side too, right? Osedax, the “bone-devouring” worm is weird. Now, I know long time Deep Sea News readers will be a little used to us talking about odd critters in the . . . → Read More: Ladies of the Bone-Devouring Worm Prefer Their Boys Tiny and in Harems
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