Worm of the week: Shipworm

Описание: Longer BBC Dissection Video our clip was from:
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-asi...



BBC coverage of Giant Shipworm discovery

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-3...


An animal that eluded collection for hundreds of years bolsters deep-sea colonization hypothesis
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/...



Discovery of chemoautotrophic symbiosis in the giant shipworm Kuphus polythalamia (Bivalvia: Teredinidae) extends wooden-steps theory
https://www.pnas.org/content/114/18/E...



"The team stumbled across a clue to the creatures’ whereabouts thanks to a YouTube video of a Philippine television news report. They asked academics in the region about possible locations and subsequently located a crop of the tubes in a lagoon replete with rotting wood. The location, adds Distel, remains a secret, to prevent the site being disturbed by shell collectors."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/201...


we think chemosynthetic bacteria living in their gills feed the giant shipworm
https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/ene...





How a Ship-Sinking Clam Conquered the Ocean

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/scienc...


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipworms


There's also a species of shipworm described in 2019 that eats rock
https://www.discovermagazine.com/plan...