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♲ Dr. Dan Killam (dantheclamman@scicomm.xyz) 2024-01-23 21:26:51:

Kuphus polythamia, the giant shipworm, is one of the strangest clams. They’re related to “the clams that sunk a thousand ships”, the shipworms, but evolved to live in anoxic sediment such as in wetlands, where they partner with bacteria to make their food from sulfide (other shipworms partner with bacteria to eat the cellulose of wood). They reach 1.5 m (!) in length, living in a long tube of carbonate. #clamFacts https://www.newscientist.com/article/2128009-first-living-example-of-giant-ancient-mollusc-found-in-the-wild/

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