Not whale-fall specialists, Osedax worms also consume fishbones

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Time-series analysis of six whale-fall communities in Monterey Canyon, California, USA

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Fossil traces of the bone-eating worm Osedax in early Oligocene whale bones

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100-Million-Year Dynasty of Giant Planktivorous Bony Fishes in the Mesozoic Seas

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A remarkable diversity of bone-eating worms (Osedax; Siboglinidae; Annelida)

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Ecomorphological selectivity among marine teleost fishes during the end-Cretaceous extinction

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Progress in systematics: from Siboglinidae to Pogonophora and Vestimentifera and back to Siboglinidae

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Spawning and development in Osedax boneworms (Siboglinidae, Annelida)

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Bone-eatingOsedaxfemales and their ‘harems’ of dwarf males are recruited from a common larval pool

(2008) R. C. VRIJENHOEK et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Bone-eating marine worms: habitat specialists or generalists?

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On the role of bone-eating worms in the degradation of marine vertebrate remains

(2008) A. G Glover et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Morphological and Molecular Evidence for a Stepwise Evolutionary Transition from Teeth to Baleen in Mysticete Whales

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Marine worms (genus Osedax) colonize cow bones

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