Bone-eating zombie worms vanished from Pacific canyons during a 10-year study, raising concerns that oxygen loss is altering ...

In a rare experiment, when Scientists researching marine life placed whale bones in the deep sea, they expected that zombie ...

When large marine animals like whales die, they sink down to the seabed. Once their flesh has been stripped away by scavengers and microbes, their corpses are colonized by a variety of specialized ...

Bone-eating worms, belonging to the genus Osedax, represent a remarkable example of evolutionary adaptation to ephemeral deep-sea habitats. These specialised annelids colonise the bones of beached ...