Shipworm that eats rock instead of wood found in river in the Philippines

A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. has found and identified a species of shipworm that eats rock instead of wood. In their paper published in Proceedings ...

Incredible Rock-Eating Shipworm Is First Of Its Kind

A section of limestone riddled with burrows bored by a unique rock-eating shipworm. (Credit: Shipway et al 2019, Proc. R. Soc. B 20190434. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.0434) What would ...

Bizarre clam eats rocks for breakfast

Rocks might not sound like a delectable meal to most life-forms, but it's on the menu for a newly identified species of a plump, bizarre-looking clam.

Scientists found a shipworm eating rocks in a river in the Philippines

An international team of scientists has discovered a new shipworm species that likes to bore through rocks.

New species of rock-eating shipworm identified in freshwater river in the Philippines