Got a bone to pick? Let Osedax worms know! These worms can transform a whale skeleton into a homemade broth, drilling into the ex-whale with acid and licking their plates clean until there are no more leftovers to be found for to-marrow’s lunch.
Despite their weirdness, they have more or less the same muscles we do. In fact, most animals do. The same familiar muscle structure can be seen throughout mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians.
This weird picture (at first, I thought the octopus had a white cream mantle!) was taken by Nick William in New Orleans:
“I was walking home around 8 p.m. last night and thought, oh no someone didn’t clean up after their dog, only to realize it was a real octopus. I didn’t want to touch that slimy thing,”.
The weird part is, he was in Dauphin St, New Orleans when this happened. And if you have a look at the map (which I did), you begin to wonder: what the heck did the octopus do on Dauphin St ???
