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EPISODE · Jun 25, 2019 · 27 MIN

Bone-Eating Worm : Whalefall

from The Wild Episode · host Brian Ruckley

The weirdest animals yet to appear on The Wild Episode: Osedax, a whole genus of bone-eating worms that for tens of millions of years have been colonising giant carcasses in the deep sea. They have no mouths, the males are miniature, they secrete acid and they grow roots like trees. Weird, like I say. But wonderful too.  Subscribe to the show to make sure you don't miss any future Wild Episodes, and e-mail your comments, corrections, suggestions or feedback to help make those future episodes better! Intro and outro music by Audionautix. www.thewildepisode.com

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