by Christoph — Way back in 2004, Rouse, Gof­fredi & Vri­jen­hoek pub­lished their find­ing, dur­ing deep-sea ex­plo­rations, of large colonies of two mouth­less and gut­less worm species on the bones of a gray whale car­cass at a depth of ~3 km in Mon­terey Bay, CA. They named the two Osedax ru­bi­plumus and Osedax frank­pressi, re­spec­tively, and found, by phy­lo­ge­netic analy­sis...