<I>Osedax</I> (IMAGE)

Society for Experimental Biology

<I>Osedax</I>

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These "bone-devouring worms," known to both eat and inhabit dead whale skeletons and other bones on the sea floor, have a unique ability to release bone-melting acid.

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Greg Rouse

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