Bone-Eating Worms Found In Antarctic Waters 38
sciencehabit writes "When you drop a whale backbone into Antarctic waters and retrieve it a year later, you'll find it covered with a pelt of wriggling, rosy-hued worms. Drop a chunk of wood in the same spot, and you'll discover that it's hardly changed. That's the result of a simple experiment to find out if some of the world's weirdest worms also live in Antarctic waters. The discovery extends the range of bone-eating worms to the Southern Ocean and suggests that Antarctic shipwrecks may be remarkably intact."
Aha! (Score:5, Funny)
When you drop a whale backbone into Antarctic waters and retrieve it a year later, you'll find it covered with a pelt of wriggling, rosy-hued worms
So *this* is the "scientific research" that the Japanese are performing.
Re:Aha! (Score:4, Funny)
And is it better with soy sauce or sweet chilli?
Re:Wouldn't it of been easier ... (Score:5, Funny)
Maybe the wood worms just spread out and find new wood to eat on an annual cycle, or are just really slow to find new wood.
Where would this wood come from? The tropical rainforests of Antarctica?
Re:Aha! (Score:4, Funny)
When you drop a whale backbone into Antarctic waters and retrieve it a year later, you'll find it covered with a pelt of wriggling, rosy-hued worms
So *this* is the "scientific research" that the Japanese are performing.
After Fukushima, one of those little wormies might be the next Gojira.
These worms.. (Score:5, Funny)
.. are said to be b-b-b-b-bad to the bone. ;-)