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Adaptations Ecology Mating & Reproduction New Research Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls

Whale Bone-Devouring Worm Into More Than Just Whales

Kevin Zelnio April 17, 2011 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…

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Adaptations Mating & Reproduction New Research New Species Seeps, Vent, & Whale Falls

Ladies of the Bone-Devouring Worm Prefer Their Boys Tiny and in Harems

Kevin Zelnio March 2, 2008 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…

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