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 ...

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 ...

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New species are discovered frequently, but this creature is unlike anything we’ve seen before. Called the giant shipworm, it lives inside a long shell where it consumes noxious chemicals at the bottom ...

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 ...

The giant shipworm, Kuphus polythalamia, is not new to science. As Ben Guarino at The Washington Post reports, even Carl Linnaeus, the father of taxonomy, was aware of this three-foot-long bivalve ...

Washington, Apr 18 (PTI) Scientists have discovered a bizarre species of shipworm – a giant, black worm-like animal that plants itself into mud like carrots and gets energy from noxious fumes of ...

(CBS NEWS) 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 ...