Rock-Eating Shipworm Shocker

摘要

>Between a rock and a hard place? That's just where Lithoredo likes it. Researchers found the new-to-science shipworm, a kind of clam, in the Abatan River on the Philippines' Bohol Island. It was a stunning sight. "It is unlike any other shipworm, both in its appearance and its unusual habits, and this was apparent from the very first moment I laid eyes on it," says marine biologist Dan Distel, executive director of the Ocean Genome Legacy Center at Northeastern University. He's also the senior author of the June paper describing the animal in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.