Osedax mucofloris, North sea marine worm
Osedax mucofloris is also known as the bone-eating snot-flower worm. The remarkable whalebone-eating polychaete worm, shown here dissected from a Minke whale bone that was recovered off the west coast of Sweden in 2005
Picture No
10706042
Media ID
47589740
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2317px x 3145px
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Credit
Mary Evans / Natural History Museum
Source
Photograph from the Natural History Museum Collection
