One thing I am impressed with is its name. It's been called the bone-eating snot-flower. So bone-eating snot-flower, was that your idea for a name? That's right. It was our idea, actually. And if you look a little bit in detail at these animals you can see that first of all the flower bit, they look a little bit like a flower emerging from the bone. Oh, I can see in this one. You see what I mean? There's a beautiful one just there. But that's only a half of it. Well, not even half of it, because it's got a root structure so that the plant sort of analogy goes further, if you like, so the root structure goes inside the bone, and it's actually got bacteria inside those roots which are giving it its energy, so it's got no mouth or guts so how is it gonna feed? But it's living on a substance, living on whale bone, which is very, very energy rich, so it's living on its food source. What a life. No mouth, no gut, presumably no eyes either? No, that's right. I mean, it's a really strange animal.


最令我印象深刻的还是它的名字，它被命名为食骨鼻涕花。 食骨鼻涕花，这名字是你想出来的吗？ 没错，是我们团队的集体意见。若你仔细观察这种动物，一眼就能看出花朵的外形，看上去像骨头上开出的花。这一只就很明显，明白我的意思了吗？ 这只真漂亮，但这只是它身体的一半，甚至还不到一半。如果把它比作一种植物，它还有根部结构。根部结构会深入到骨头中，根部中有细菌。细菌为它提供能量，所以它无口无内脏，那如何进食呢？ 它寄生在物体上，以鲸骨为食。鲸骨的营养极其丰富，所以说它是生长在其食物来源上的。生命真奇妙，没嘴没内脏。也许连眼睛也没有。 是的，确实没有，确实是一种奇怪的动物。