Only within the past 12 years have marine biologists come to learn about the eye-opening characteristics of mystifying sea worms that live and thrive on the skeletons of whale carcasses. Now, ...
When large marine animals like whales die, they sink down to the seabed. Once their flesh has been stripped away by scavengers and microbes, their corpses are colonized by a variety of specialized ...
A mouthless and gutless marine worm that feeds off whale bones uses acid secretions to absorb nutrients from the skeletons, according to new research from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La ...