"bone-eating snot-flower"

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'Zombie worms' found off Sweden

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 12:31 (twenty years ago)

I just wanted to see "bone-eating snot-flower" on the New Answers page.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 12:32 (twenty years ago)

who wouldn't?

― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 12:36 (twenty years ago)

Indeed.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 12:37 (twenty years ago)

I saw this in the Metro this morning over someone else's shoulder but could not crane my neck far enough to see what the heck it was about.

― Paranoid Spice (kate), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 12:37 (twenty years ago)

"The female Pacific worms keep males inside their tube as a sort of little harem that fertilises eggs as they are released into the water column," explained Dr Glover.

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 12:52 (twenty years ago)

They don't LOOK that horrible. "Bone Eating Snot Flower" seems like rather a cruel name.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 13:11 (twenty years ago)

I'm not entirely sure why they're described as zombie worms either.

― Mädchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 13:14 (twenty years ago)

I think someone in the Worm-Naming Department had been watching DAWN OF THE DEAD the night before they discovered these.

― hobart paving (hobart paving), Wednesday, 19 October 2005 13:28 (twenty years ago)

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