Boffins Hook Bone-eating Snot Flower

[mandy]

Scientists from London's Natural History Museum and Göteborg University have pulled off a bit of a coup in discovering a previously-unknown species of worm feeding on a dead minke whale bones.

The 1-2cm creature, boasting "frond-like tentacles" was found devouring a minke skeleton off the Swedish coast at a depth of 120m, the Times reports, adding little except to note that it has been named Osedax mucofloris - or "bone-eating snot flower" to its mates.

full article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/19/snot_flower/

'Zombie worms' found off Sweden

A new species of marine worm that lives off whale bones on the sea floor has been described by scientists.

article with photos from BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4354286.stm

[bargainbloodhound]

Cute little bone-eating snot flower critter. 

[jezebel]