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October 19, 2005
Bone-eating snot-flower
From an article on BBC News, "A new species of marine worm that lives off whale bones on the sea floor has been described by scientists. The creature was found on a minke carcass in relatively shallow water close to Tjarno Marine Laboratory on the Swedish coast."
The new species has been named Osedax mucofloris, which literally translates to bone-eating snot-flower.
Names like that are fun. Gizmos never seem to end up with cool names like that.
Posted by Raman at 01:19 PM in Science (Real World) | Permalink
