Bone-eating worms 30 million years old

Tuesday, April 20, 2010 - 10:21 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Scientists have found the first fossil boreholes of the worm, Osedax, that consumes whale bones on the deep-sea floor. They conclude that "boneworms" are at least 30 million years old.

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