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 ...

They bedeviled ancient Greek navies, helped shipwreck Christopher Columbus, aided in the sinking of the Spanish Armada and caused the wharves in San Francisco Bay to collapse into the sea, but until ...

For centuries, shipworms have vexed mariners by boring into – and consuming – the hulls of wooden ships and boats. Soon, though, we may actually be eating those "worms," as they have successfully been ...

The three-foot long creature has long eluded scientists, but they finally got a closer look Jason Daley Correspondent The giant shipworm, Kuphus polythalamia, is not new to science. As Ben Guarino at ...

Secret of the world’s most destructive and intriguing mollusk has implications for everything from climate change to human health AMHERST, Mass. – They bedeviled ancient Greek navies, helped shipwreck ...