The two-thousand-year-old mystery of the havoc-wreaking worm

(University of Massachusetts Amherst) Humans have known for over two thousand years that shipworms, a worm-like mollusk, are responsible for damage to wooden boats, docks, dikes and piers. Yet new research from the University of Massachusetts Amherst published in Frontiers in Microbiology reveals that we still don't know the most basic thing about them: how they eat.

Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - July 13, 2021 Category: Biology Source Type: news