The World's Authoritative Guide to Vent Fauna Clearly, last week’s Cephalopod Beak ID Contest was too easy! So This week’s contest is going to be a little harder. I’m testing you guys out, seeing where your limits are. This week I am highlighting the Handbook of Deep-Sea Hydrothermal Vent Fauna by veteran deep sea colleagues . . . → Read More: Mad Taxonomic Skillz Contest II – What Vent Worm Am I?
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By Kevin Zelnio, on  January 31st, 2010  9 comments  Organisms, Reviews, Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls  Hydrothermal Vent, taxonomy, Vent Fauna Handbook, worm By Dr. M, on March 19th, 2009 3 comments Adaptations, Mating & Reproduction, Organisms dagger, fencing, flatworm, love, mate, Mating, NSFW, Penis, Reproduction, sex, sperm, sword, war, worm From the video, “It’s known as penis fencing, and the worms are the swordsmen” Potentially NSFW if having the word the penis said a dozen times over your computer speakers will cause issues. 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 July 4th, 2008 One comment Adaptations, Organisms, Pictures and Movies Antarctica, Bristleworm, Hydromedusa, jelly, National Geographic, Polychaete, Shrimp, Weddell Sea, worm From National Geographic’s new Translucent Creatures photo gallery: A hydromedusa spreads its luminescent tentacles in the Weddell Sea near Antarctica. Photograph by Ingo Arndt/Minden Pictures. This medusa is like totally coming at me like a spider monkey with those nunchuk tentacles. Meet some of its friends below the fold! . . . → Read More: Friday Deep Sea Picture: Ninja Hydromedusa!
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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