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Bone-boring worm once had a taste for birds

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Osedax worms might have had a more-rounded diet 30 million years ago.

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  1. Kiel, S., Kahl, W.-A. & Goedert, J. L. Naturwissenschaften advance online publication doi:10.1007/s00114-010-0740-5 (2010).

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Kaplan, M. Bone-boring worm once had a taste for birds. Nature (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/news.2010.651

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