A Boring Shipworm

Been a while since I posted anything that was completely public, but I thought I'd share a scientific paper about a shipworm that burrows through and ingests rock.

It doesn't appear to derive nutrition from the rock, either directly or indirectly, but it's the only known invertebrate to do this, and there's still a possibility that symbiotic bacteria could feed on the rock and then contribute to the worm. Morphological adaptations are pretty neat, too.

So it's cool.