A Zombie Worm And Other Amazing Images From This Week

Friday, May 17, 2013 - 16:00 in Biology & Nature

Zombie Worm This horrifying worm is an Osedax, also called a zombie worm or bone-eating worm, for a pretty obvious reason: it lives inside the bones of dead sea creatures, like whales, eating and mating and doing all kinds of other gross worm things. It was only discovered in 2002. Read more here. Norio Miyamoto/Naturwissenschaften Plus the most beautiful image of Earth, New York City on Venus, and the world's largest (deflated) rubber duck. Click here to enter the gallery

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