Bone-eating snot-flower

[Masoch]

Hi Doc,

Since this forum seems to be a clearing house for folks who like weird sea critters, I thought I'd post a link to a BBC news item about a newly-discovered worm, Osedax mucofloris. Its claim to fame (other than having a fantastic name) is that it lives on decaying whal bones in the north Atlantic.

I, ummm, don't think it'd make a great addition to a reef tank. Well ... at least one under a several thousand gallons ...

[rshimek]

Hi,

[thanks]

Kind of old news, though. The worms were discovered and made their first pass through the news about 3 years ago.