The river clam that chews its own bedrock

The river clam that chews its own bedrock

Sep 6, 2026 | Journal

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 Crust Under the Pacific That Counts Dead Stars

Sep 4, 2026 | Journal

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

The Cave at the End of the Mousterian

Sep 3, 2026 | Journal

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...
The Ship at 3,008 Metres, and the 2026 Vote to Stop Going Back

The Ship at 3,008 Metres, and the 2026 Vote to Stop Going Back

Aug 31, 2026 | Journal

There is a ship at the bottom of the Weddell Sea that has not been touched since the day it sank. Endurance, the three-masted barquentine in which Ernest Shackleton and twenty-seven men set out in 1914 to make the first land crossing of Antarctica, was found on 5...