The 27 Best Deep-Sea Species #2: Bone-Devouring Zombie Worms from Hell
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By , on October 30th, 2008 One comment   Organisms, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls   , , , , , ,  

#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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TGIF: mmmmmm… Whale
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By , on June 27th, 2008 2 comments   Pictures and Movies, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls   , , , , , , , ,  

This whale fall video was produced by the laboratory of Dr. Craig Smith, University of Hawaii (craigsmi at hawaii dot edu).

Ladies of the Bone-Devouring Worm Prefer Their Boys Tiny and in Harems
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By , on March 2nd, 2008 18 comments   Adaptations, Mating & Reproduction, New Research, New Species, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls   , , , , , , , , ,  

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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