Scientists Drop Alligator Carcasses on Seafloor for Feeding Experiment

Scientists Drop Alligator Carcasses on Seafloor for Feeding Experiment

Alligator bodies were placed on the Gulf of Mexico’s seafloor to see how scavengers would react to a rare type of food.

Turns out, the uncommon food source brought in a bunch of deep-sea scavengers and a newly discovered species of bone-eating “zombie worms.”