by Christoph Weigel | Way back in 2004, Rouse, Goffredi & Vrijenhoek published their finding, during deep-sea explorations, of large colonies of two mouthless and gutless worm species on the bones of a gray whale carcass at a depth of ~3 km in Monterey Bay, CA. They named the two Osedax rubiplumus and Osedax frankpressi, respectively, and found, by phylogenetic analysis...
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