What would a shipworm do if a shipworm didn’t eat wood? The humble bivalve has long had outsized influence on both its environment and even the global economy. That’s because, until now, every known species consumes wood, sometimes with destructive results.
A shipworm species new to science, however, tunnels through rock and eats it, too: It’s a story of an evolutionary oddity that’s as full of twists and turns as the burrows the animals leave behind.
