But in recent years, scientists have found the zombie worms (genus Osedax) are missing in action off the coast of British ...

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 ...

In a scary movie, creatures that can't always be seen often provide the biggest frights for characters and viewers alike. In deep-ocean research, the absence of one particular creature—the so-called ...

When researchers lowered whale bones into the deep ocean, they expected zombie worms to quickly move in. Instead, after 10 years, none appeared — an unsettling result tied to low-oxygen waters in the ...

A viral clip showing drunk fishermen posing on a dead whale has sparked widespread outrage, raising questions about wildlife respect, hidden dangers of carcasses, and the growing impact of ...

When a large marine mammal like a whale dies, its body drifts to the ocean floor in a process known as whale fall. For more than a decade, a succession of sea creatures will live off of the whale’s ...

WASHINGTON — Officials near a Nantucket beach have a whale-sized problem. That's not surprising considering the problem is literally a whale. A dead sperm whale washed up on the shore of the ...

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