It’s appropriate, at Halloween, to be learning about a creature nicknamed “the bone devourer” – which is honestly somehow less troubling than its proper name: the zombie worm. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

But the scariest thing of all? They seem to be vanishing.

“Basically, we’re talking about potential species loss,” said Fabio De Leo, senior staff scientist with Ocean Networks Canada (ONC), adjunct assistant professor with the University of Victoria’s (UVic) Department of Biology, and co-leader of the new research project, in a statement this week.

“This was a remarkable observation in such a long-term experiment.”

So what’s the story? Well, it starts with a big old humpback whale carcass .

If you’re a zo

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