The river clam that chews its own bedrock
The rock-eating clam is, as advertised, a clam that eats rock. Lithoredo abatanica lives in a stretch of the Abatan River on Bohol Island in the Philippines, and instead of chewing wood the way every other shipworm does, it chews limestone. It swallows the limestone....
The Crust Under the Pacific That Counts Dead Stars
The story is in the floor of the Pacific. Not the photogenic floor — the abyssal one, four or five kilometres down, where black, knobby, slow-growing ferromanganese crusts accumulate atom by atom around a nucleus of whatever was lying around. They are ugly rocks. They...
The Cave at the End of the Mousterian
There is a cave mouth in the municipality of Aguilón, in Zaragoza province, Aragón, and the mouth is the news. AGP5 — Aguilón P5 — sits in the Iberian Range, and on 2 September 2026 the IUCA group at the University of Zaragoza, with Rafael Domingo's team...