Scientists discovered a terrifying zombie worm that lives at the bottom of the deep sea and feasts on the bones of dead animals.
So far, scientists have discovered 30 different species of zombie worms worldwide. These species include the, first found near a hydrothermal vent in the Arctic. There’s also the bone-eating snot flower, which was first found near Sweden. Everywhere that the scientists look, they continue to find these bone-eating creatures.
The worms also seem to vary in size, just as they vary in type. Some are the length of a pinky finger, and some are smaller than an eyelash. Scientists say that the ones usually visible to the naked eye are females. The male zombie worms appear to be smaller and don’t eat bones. The worms also seem to live in “harems” of tens or hundreds inside of a female’s mucous tube. There, they wait for her eggs to emerge so they can fertilize them. When the males run out of energy, they die completely. Even still, another species of the zombie worms does things differently, scientists say.
Instead of living within the females themselves, those males scrounge around on the bones of carcasses until they find females. Then, they deliver the sperm they have kept stored in their heads to the female worms, fertilizing their eggs. There’s no doubt that this entire species is intriguing and somewhat terrifying. The next time you think about how awesome it would be to go deep-sea exploring, just think about the thousands of zombie worms that call the bottom of the sea floor home, just waiting on a new set of bones to munch upon. If that doesn’t intrigue you, maybe this freakish,
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