Scientists at the University of Victoria (UVic) in British Columbia have made an alarming discovery: zombie worms are missing from B.C.’s ocean floor. These missing worms spell trouble, but not for ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Osedax is considered an ecosystem engineer. Despite not having a mouth, anus, or digestive tract, their roots bore into bones from ...

Fallen whale carcasses offer islands of nutrition within an otherwise sparse seafloor, and with help from bone-eating zombie worms, they can sustain an entire ecosystem for decades. But in recent ...

Deep-sea worms feast on the teeth of dead sharks that fall to the seafloor. These worms were previously known to eat whale bones and the remains of bony fish, but when those are scarce, shark teeth ...