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OSEDAX: ANCIENT BONE EATERS
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Somewhere, in the depths of the ocean, a marine ambrosia descends from above; the body of a dead whale. Despite the depth, the corpse won’t be in solitude long; a mini-ecosystem will soon erupt around it, one that could last a decade. The body draws hag fish, sea cucumbers, rat tail fish, brittle star fish, a host of other invertebrates and myriad species of bacteria, all come to feast on the marine bounty. And soon the ‘bone devourers’, Osedax, come too.
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