Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Osedax is considered an ecosystem engineer. Despite not having a mouth, anus, or digestive tract, their roots bore into bones from ...

A team of researchers in England has discovered how a worm with no mouth or stomach may have messed with the ocean's fossil record for millions of years. Freelancer Michael Franco writes about the ...

When researchers lowered whale bones into the deep ocean, they expected zombie worms to quickly move in. Instead, after 10 years, none appeared — an unsettling result tied to low-oxygen waters in the ...

Once they knew that the zombie worms existed, scientists started looking for them more. Because they'd been found on bodies of dead animals at the bottom of the sea, they drug whale carcasses and ...

In a scary movie, creatures that can't always be seen often provide the biggest frights for characters and viewers alike. In deep-ocean research, the absence of one particular creature—the so-called ...

What happens when the ocean’s giants die? Despite their blubbery bodies, whales eventually sink to the bottom in what are called “whale falls,” becoming an essential source of food, nutrients and ...

Osedax mucofloris is one of my all-time favorite sea creatures. Why? Osedax mucofloris literally translates to “bone-eating snot-flower,” which, let’s face it ...