It's a tough life for a shipworm. Stuck to the same piece of wood since they were teeny larvae, these rapidly-growing clams need to get creative to feed themselves, and also reproduce with nearby ...
A newly identified genus and species of worm-like, freshwater clam, commonly known as a shipworm, eats rock and expels sand as scat while it burrows like an ecosystem engineer in the Abatan River in ...
CORVALLIS - Nearly 70 percent of the Earth s surface is covered by water, yet 95 percent of what lies beneath the surface, is unexplored. That s something researchers at Oregon Health and Science ...