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Guest post by Dr. Melissa Betters “They got it!” echoed shouts down the hallways of the Research Vessel Atlantis in Fall 2018. The whole science crew knew what it meant: The elusive polychaete worm, seen numerous times during our deep-sea dives at the Pacific Costa Rica Margin, had finally been captured. Now, it’s been formally| Deep Sea News | All the news on the Earth's largest environment.
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 rather the fats within the bone matrix. It's just the Osedax females that do the feeding ... and have no| Deep Sea News | All the news on the Earth's largest environment.