Tag Archive for 'Osedax'

A close-up view of a male Osedax priapus. Scale bar - 0.3 mm. Image credit: Greg Rouse.

Prehistoric Bone-Devouring Osedax Worms Fed on Carcasses of Plesiosaurs

Apr 16, 2015 by News Staff

In a new paper in the journal Biology Letters, scientists reported fossil traces of Osedax – a genus of bone-devouring worms that both eat and inhabit...

Osedax priapus: New Species of Bone-Eating Worm Discovered

Dec 13, 2014 by News Staff

A team of marine biologists led by Dr Robert Vrijenhoek from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute has discovered a new species of bone-devouring...

Study Finds Osedax Worms Use Bone-Melting Acid

Jul 5, 2012 by Enrico de Lazaro

California University scientists have discovered that tiny ‘bone-devouring worms’, known to both eat and inhabit dead whale skeletons and other...