An enormous, worm-like mollusk called a shipworm that inhabits a shell resembling an elephant’s tusk was recently seen for the first time ever. The animal’s long, tubular shells — which measure 3 to 5 ...

Nature’s weirdest clam surprises scientists once again, this time in video footage of its mating habits. By Sabrina Imbler Above the water, September would seem a month like any other in the boatyards ...

Although the giant shipworm was first categorized as a species more than 200 years ago, no living specimen had been examined by scientists and almost nothing had been known about it. That changed when ...

SALT LAKE CITY -- A new animal called the "Giant Shipworm" has been discovered in a lagoon in the southern Philippines. A team of international scientists including medicinal chemist Margo Haygood ...

Scientists recently found a massive, suggestively shaped shipworm squelching through the mudflats of the Philippines—the first time the creature has been spotted alive. They described the “beefy, ...

For hundreds of years, biologists knew of the giant shipworm only from shell fragments and a handful of dead specimens. Those specimens, despite being preserved in museum jars, had gone to mush. Still ...

As alluded to by its name, most shipworms bore into and digest wood – making them a natural nemesis to docks, pier infrastructure, wooden vessels and sailors alike. The mollusks digest the wood with ...

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 of the ...

Shipworms are not worms at all, but bivalve mollusks and closely related to clams. Their shells have been modified into hard plates located near the head of the animal. They feed digging their burrows ...