Saturday, April 18, 2015

Zombie Worms Feasted On The Bones of Ancient Marine Reptiles


There’d be a lot more plesiosaurs in the fossil record, if it wasn’t for all the damn zombie worms. At least, that’s one interpretation of a new study which shows that Osedax, better known as the zombie worm, devoured the bones of marine reptiles 100 million years ago.


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