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Could a rebrand make shipworms as sexy as oysters?

Financial Times 14 Jul 2024
Margot Henderson and other top chefs suggest recipes for the very ugly but potentially ocean-saving ‘naked clam’ ....
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New study uncovers how shipworms plagued seafarers for millennia

Bangor Daily News 27 Jun 2024
ORONO — For thousands of years, shipworms — a family of mollusks found in oceans — sank wooden vessels, ravaged wharfs, and shipwrecked sailors ... Goodell has investigated how shipworms digest lignin for nearly a decade.
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Shipworms still hold some sea-crets (NSF - National Science Foundation)

Public Technologies 18 Jun 2024
Although they have been known to mariners for centuries - having aided in shipwrecking Columbus and sinking parts of the Spanish Armada - scientists have not been able to determine how shipworms digest wood, until now.
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They once humbled navies: The secret of tiny shipworms’ mighty gut

The Washington Post 16 Jun 2024
‘We’ve been trying to crack this mystery for years and we finally discovered the shipworm’s hidden bacterial symbiont secret,’ a scientist says ... .
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Researchers solve 2,000-year-old mystery of the shipworm

Science Daily 06 Jun 2024
... have been unable to pinpoint exactly how shipworms -- a family of mollusks -- are able to cause such damage.
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Researchers solve 2,000-year-old mystery of the destructive shipworm

Phys Dot Org 05 Jun 2024
"But," says lead author Barry Goodell, recently retired professor of microbiology at UMass Amherst and emeritus professor at the University of Maine, "the shipworm's digestive tract has long been thought to be virtually sterile.".
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Researchers Led by UMass Amherst Solve 2,000 Year Old Mystery of the Shipworm (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

Public Technologies 05 Jun 2024
The shipworm is actually a mollusk found throughout the world's oceans ... How then do shipworms do what they do?<_o3a_p> ... Reuben Shipway, having extracted a shipworm from a timber, measures its length.
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Shipworm fish fingers, anyone? Meet science’s answer to cod

The Times/The Sunday Times 07 Apr 2024
The slimy white mollusc, known as the shipworm, ... The researchers believe the shipworm offers an sustainable alternative to the “big five” — cod, haddock, salmon, tuna and prawns — that make up 80 per.
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Shipworms ravaged wooden sailing ships for eons. Now they're destroying NJ, NY wharves

Burlington County Times 08 Dec 2023
marine borer, shipworm and, most recently, naked clam ... Fish and Wildlife Service leaflet, records show that as far back as 412 B.C., "arsenic and sulfur mixed with oil was used on wooden structures to prevent shipworm invasion.".
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Maybe shipworms will be the next calamari, but all the same, I’ll pass

The Observer 26 Nov 2023
A team of scientists at Plymouth University is hoping to set up the world’s first shipworm farm. The marine pests, which they have renamed “naked clams”, are nutritious, high in vitamin B12, and require only wood and water to grow. It’s wonderful news.
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Maybe shipworms will be the next calamari, but all the same, I’ll pass | Kathryn Bromwich

The Guardian 25 Nov 2023
... unpalatable A team of scientists at Plymouth University is hoping to set up the world’s first shipworm farm .
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First world shipworm farm developed in Devon

BBC News 21 Nov 2023
The marine pests have been re-branded as "naked clams" in a bid to get people to eat them ... .
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Could shipworms be destroying the wreck of Captain Cook's Endeavour?

Phys Dot Org 17 Aug 2022
A shipwreck believed to be that of Captain James Cook's HMS Endeavour is being eaten by shipworms in its resting place off the United States coastline ... "As long as the timbers are exposed in the ocean, the shipworms will continue to eat away at them.
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Is Captain Cook's HMS Endeavour being eaten by SHIPWORMS? Divers warn 250-year-old shipwreck off the ...

The Daily Mail 16 Aug 2022
But a new study warns that a shipwreck believed to be the legendary HMS Endeavour is being devoured by shipworms ... 'If it is left, the shipworms will continue to eat away at its structure and we could be left with little – or nothing – to preserve.'.

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