Eating tubeworms, fruit bats and ants -- all in the name of science
Thursday, January 23, 2014 - 23:20
in Biology & Nature
A tube of saggy, bacteria-filled flesh, the deep-sea tubeworm displays a uniquely unappetizing appearance. But marine biologist Peter Girguis and his colleagues tried a morsel anyway."We just took off a little piece and ate it raw," said Girguis, a professor at Harvard University.