Common minke whale sharks have been found scavenging the blubber thrown overboard during Norwegian minke whaling operations off Svalbard. Great white sharks and blue sharks have also been observed feeding on a minke whale carcass off California. A new species of siboglinid annelid worm, "Osedax mucofloris", was discovered on the carcass of a 5.3 m (17.4 ft) female minke whale experimentally placed at a depth of 125 m (410 ft) in the North Sea. This genus of worm uses endosymbiotic bacteria to feed on the bones of whales that fall to the seafloor. Common minke whales are a host to a number of
Creature (2011 film) the film, concluding, ""Creature" is so laughably pathetic that it's worth a few chuckles, but the really amazing thing is that huckster Sid Sheinberg put up the cash to dump this slime-covered turd into more than 1,500 theaters nationwide, proving that hope, like evil swamp monsters, is eternal". Mark Olsen of the "Los Angeles Times" called it a "delightfully dopey" film that "has no illusions about what it is: a down-and-dirty, breasts-and-blood, creature-horror exploitation picture". Creature (2011 film) Creature is a 2011 American monster horror film directed by Fred M. Andrews, based on a screenplay written by Andrews and Tracy