No mouth, but zombie worm eats whale bones
Tuesday, July 3, 2012 - 16:30
in Biology & Nature
Deep in oceans around the world lurks a type of worm without a mouth, anus or gut that makes its living by eating the bones of whales and other deceased sea creatures. But how does an animal without a mouth penetrate bone? That's just what a group of researchers aimed to find out.
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