The experiment also led to the team discovering a new species of worm.
"This means that the typical organisms that form the base of a food web, plants or plant-like organisms calledin marine systems, are not present. Instead, food for animals in the abyss arrives via what we call 'marine snow,' aggregations of bits of decaying animals,In the past, other researchers tried seeing how wood, plants and whales might help out the hungry deep-sea organisms.
Instead, the organisms started eating one 198.2 centimeter alligator weighing 29.7 kilograms 43 hours after it landed on the sea bed. After 51 days, the soft tissue of another alligator, 175.3cm and 19.5kg , was totally gone. feed on the fats inside the bones of many animals. These worms have never been spotted eating an alligator carcass, and this study also marks the first time these worms have been found in the Gulf of Mexico, the website reported.
A third alligator, measuring 172.7cm and 18.5kg ,"was missing completely after 8 days," the team wrote. The weight and harness used to deploy the body was found around 8m away, and marks in the sea bed suggested its remains had been dragged away by a shark.Dixon said the dimensions of the carcass made it"quite unwieldy." Therefore,"whatever did that had to be huge," he said.
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