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 bones of whale carcasses. A female Osedax ...

A new study led by a scientist at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego is painting a more complete picture of an extraordinary sea worm that makes its living in the depths of the ocean ...

Some 30 million years ago, alien-looking worms bored into the bones of a whale carcass. Now, for the first time scientists have discovered the whale fossils riddled with boreholes. These so-called ...

Traces of bizarre, bone-eating 'zombie' worms have been found on a 3-million-year-old fossil whale bone from Tuscany in Italy. It is the first time the genus Osedax has been found in the Mediterranean ...

Bone-eating worms that can devour an entire whale carcass were also feasting on prehistoric reptiles more than 100 million years ago, a new study finds. No one knows when the first Osedax worms ...

The saga of the Osedax “bone-eating” worms began 12 years ago, with the first discovery of these deep-sea creatures that feast on the bones of dead animals. The Osedax story grew even stranger when ...

Five years after discovering some of the strangest creatures in the world – mouthless worms that live in the bones of dead whales – scientists have taken a peek into their genes. Though not complete, ...

Fussy feeder A hunt for two of the strangest animals that live on the deep sea floor has revealed Antarctic shipwrecks may be incredibly well preserved. The claim follows the discovery by an ...

Osedax worms, or the ‘bone eating’ worms are little soft sacks resembling snotty little flowers. The “bone devourer” is not quite accurate as the worms do not actually feed on the bone mineral, but ...

An adult female zombie worm exposed from a bone. So-called zombie worms are eyeless, mouthless, bone-boring creatures that live inside decaying whale carcasses that have fallen to the ocean floor. The ...

They’re the tiny recyclers of the ocean floor -- voracious, pink-plumed worms that devour entire whale skeletons, then scatter their eggs to the current in hopes that offspring will find new bones.

[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URi8KccVkks[/embed] When whales die, they fall to the floor of the sea. As described in the above video from the Monterey Bay ...