Whalebone Eaters Found Far-Flung

I've written before about whale falls, the corpses of whales--and the ecological niche they occupy--on the sea floor. A bit of related research surfaced with the bones of a whale experimentally placed in the North Sea: a tubeworm was found on the bones nearly identical to whalebone worms halfway around the world. Researchers gave it the name Osedax mucofloris, taxonomic Latin for "bone-eater slimeflower." The BBC gives details.