亿年历史的海洋蠕虫 曾以蛇颈龙骨头为食

• 出 处: 泸州科技
• 发表日期: 2015年02期
• 关键词: 蛇颈龙 普利茅斯大学 合著者 共同进化 Nicholas 骨骼形成 头长 负有责任

研究人员在一只蛇颈龙的化石和一只古老海龟的外壳上发现了一种名为食骨蠕虫的海洋食腐动物钻出的孔洞。食骨蠕虫也被称为僵尸蠕虫,研究表明它们或许已经对现在保存的化石遗迹造成了负面影响。研究的合著者,普利茅斯大学海洋研究所的Nicholas Higgs博士称:“我们的发现表明这些食骨蠕虫并非与鲸鱼共同进化,它们也吞噬了恐龙时代统治海洋的巨大爬行动物的遗骸。因此食骨蠕虫导致许多遗骨无法成为化石,这就阻碍了我们对于

Researchers found a hole in the shell of a marine carnivore known as a bony worm found on the shell of a plesiosaur fossil and an ancient sea turtle. Dietetic worms, also known as zombie worms, have shown that they may have had a negative impact on the fossil remains that are now preserved. Dr. Nicholas Higgs, co-author of the study and the Institute of Oceanology at Plymouth University, said: ”Our finding suggests that these food-borne worms do not co-evolve with whales and that they also engulf the remains of giant reptiles that rule the ocean in the dinosaurs. Worms cause many bones can not become fossils, which hindered us