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Ancient bone-eating worms ate mosasaur, ichthyosaur and plesiosaur skeletons

When large marine animals like whales die, they sink down to the seabed. Once their flesh has been stripped away by scavengers and microbes, their corpses are colonized by a variety of specialized invertebrates that feast on the fats and proteins locked inside their skeletons.

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