The body of an Osedax worm is visible inside the root of a shark’s tooth, with the worm’s gelatinous tube hanging down
Greg Rouse, Scripps Oceanography
Deep-sea worms feast on the teeth of dead sharks that fall to the seafloor. These worms were previously known to eat whale bones and the remains of bony fish, but when those are scarce, shark teeth may be a key source of food.
Osedax worms are strange-looking creatures with frilly pink gills. They have no mouth or stomach, so they rely on microbes living inside them to absorb …
