In honor of Hagfish Day at WhaleTimes.org, I am reposting a Kevin Z original classic from the days of yore. Lyrics under the fold: . . . → Read More: #HagfishDay: Every Whale Has Its Bone
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By Kevin Zelnio, on  October 8th, 2011  5 comments  Art, Organisms, Pictures and Movies, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls  animation, Sharon Shattuck, video, Whale Fall A great film about a whale fall by Sharon Shattuck. Whale Fall (after life of a whale) from Sharon Shattuck on Vimeo. 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 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
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 Dr. M, on October 19th, 2009 9 comments Adaptations, Mating & Reproduction, New Research, Organisms Aerosmith, Disney, gonads, hermaphrodite, Madonna, protandric, Reproduction, sex, whale, Whale Fall Scientists love to group things. We also like to name things. We also like to plot data on bivariate graphs. On really crazy nights, we let our hair down, well not me per se but other scientists with hair, and do all three. 90% of science is grouping, naming, and plotting. If you don’t know . . . → Read More: Who likes protandric hermaphrodites?
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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