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Bone eating snot flower?

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skold17 | 12:16 Thu 20th Oct 2005 | Animals & Nature
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has anyone heard of this? i want to find pictures. it was discovered recently, it is real.
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It is a type of worm that feeds on the carcasses of dead Minke whales called Osedax mucofloris which translates as bone eating snot flower. The BBC have an article on it seen here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4354286.stm

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