The Mystery of the 5-Foot-Long Shipworm Just Got Stinkier
The Mystery of the 5-Foot-Long Shipworm Just Got Stinkier
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
April 21, 20175m 50s
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Show Notes
That image above, depending on what your job is, could well be considered not safe for work. What you’re looking at is a giant shipworm—a scientific legend that can grow to over five feet long. It’s actually a super-elongated mollusk, one that grows vertically in sediment, excreting a thick shell and poking two siphons out of the muck. It is, as biologists note, really weird.
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