This Is a Giant Shipworm. You May Wish It Had Stayed In Its Tube.
Imagine a pitch-black, three-foot-long, baseball-bat-thick bivalve that lives head-down in sulfur-rich mud and outsources digestion to symbiotic microbes. That’s Kuphus polythalamia—the giant shipworm—discovered alive only in 2017 after centuries of myth. It is the longest bivalve on Earth and a living case study in extreme symbiosis, carbon cycling, and biotech potential. First Encounter: From Myth […]
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