DEEP sea researchers were left stunned when they uncovered a bizarre creature known as the “zombie worm” while surveying the ocean bed.
David Attenborough said in 2017: “There is nothing left but a few bones.“Zombie worms – they tunnel into the bones by injecting acid and so can reach the tiny amounts of fat that still remain there.“It may take decades, but eventually the last of the bones will crumble and the whole 30-tonne carcass will have been recycled.
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