«The reduction of whale carcasses during the age of commercial whaling may have caused some of the earliest human - caused extinctions in the ocean,» writes the study's first author, conservation biologist Joe Roman of the University of Vermont in Burlington, in an e-mail. (sciencemag.org)
In the Feb. 4 issue of the journal Nature, the researchers describe four newly discovered species living near deep - sea cold seeps, hydrothermal vents, and whale carcasses off the coasts of California and Mexico. (sciencedaily.com)
Since Osedax's discovery, the worms have been found on whale carcasses in shallower waters off the coasts of Southern California and Sweden. (discovermagazine.com)