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Insect/Worm-Alutiiq Word of the Week-August 6th

By Alutiiq Museum on Aug 6, 2023   Alutiiq Word of the Week & Museum News, Featured  

Insect/Worm-Alutiiq Word of the Week-August 6th

Worm, Insect — Kinguk Tawa kingugturningaitua! – No, I won’t eat worms! Earthworms are relatively rare in Alaska. Despite the abundance and notoriety of their cousin the ice worm, earthworms do not thrive in acidic forest soils or in areas with extensively frozen ground. Of the 1,800 known species of earthworms, the only naturally occurring […]

Bone-Eating Worms ate Marine Reptile Carcasses

By Andrew Merrington|Plymouth University on Apr 20, 2015   At Sea, Science/Education  

Bone-Eating Worms ate Marine Reptile Carcasses

A species of bone-eating worm that was believed to have evolved in conjunction with whales has been dated back to prehistoric times when it fed on the carcasses of giant marine reptiles. Scientists at Plymouth University found that Osedax – popularised as the ‘zombie worm’ – originated at least 100 million years ago, and subsisted […]

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