These proved popular; he still sells them.

Apr 06, A 60,year-old underwater forest in the Gulf of Mexico may be harboring life-saving secrets. Shipworms pulled from the wood could be used to make a new class of stumpchopping.barted Reading Time: 9 mins.

The bacteria use the hydrogen sulfide as energy to produce organic carbons that feed the shipworms.

Apr 18, Scientists Have Finally Found a Live Giant Shipworm, And It's Seriously Nightmare Fuel. PETER DOCKRILL. 18 APRIL For centuries, a slimy black tube-shaped creature the size of a baseball bat has been eluding scientists. They'd examined its external shell, but never laid eyes on the alien-like physique hidden inside - until now, that stumpchopping.barted Reading Time: 4 mins. Jun 19, DOI: /rspb 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 Estimated Reading Time: 3 mins. The shipworm was found in the low banks of the Abatan River in the Philippines.

Somebody surely wants this stuff, for something, he thought.

Scientists were first tipped off to the species (Lithoredo abatanica) by locals who told tales of a creature called Estimated Reading Time: 6 man cuts open tree to find shipworm. Shipworm This dried specimen of Teredo navalis was extracted from the wood and the calcareous tunnel that originally surrounded it and curled into a circle during presevation.

The two valves of the shell are the white structures at the anterior end; they are used to dig the tunnel in the stumpchopping.bar: Bivalvia. Dec 05, But the struggle between man and clam forced many countries to go the way of the Dutch and build with shipworm-resistant materials, and the public attention and research blitz waned.