Calling all wise-cracking women

News of the discovery of a new species of worm, the Osedax, meaning bone-devourer, found feasting on the bones of a dead whale off the coast of California. One of the most fascinating things about this species is that the males are microscopic “sperm packages” that live inside the tubes of the female worms. The males spend their entire lives servicing the reproductive needs of the females in an otherwise pointless existence.