Ancient bone-eating worms ate mosasaur, ichthyosaur and plesiosaur skeletons
Wednesday, July 9, 2025 - 07:23
in Paleontology & Archaeology
When large marine animals like whales die, they sink down to the seabed. Once their flesh has been stripped away by scavengers and microbes, their corpses are colonized by a variety of specialized invertebrates that feast on the fats and proteins locked inside their skeletons.